Sovereignty rethought

Abstract

This panel brings together contributions that seek to expand or challenge traditional understandings of sovereignty. How, for example, can we move away from anthropocentric conceptualisations of international relations and sovereignty in order to understand better how extreme climate and weather phenomena have influenced conflicts and post-conflict reconstruction of state sovereignties? How can we deconstruct masculinised and hierarchical concept of sovereignty towards strengthening Feminist Foreign Policy analysis and exploit its full potential ? Does China's international assertiveness really challenge ideas of sovereignty, and will it continued to do so? And how citizenship policies of the Chinese government might be at odds with legal territorial understandings of sovereignty embraced by not only most European states, but also the rhetoric of the Chinese government itself? And, finally, how has sovereignty's connection with human victimisation and exclusion created conditions for genocide, such as in the example of Rohingya; Through a set of diverse but speaking to each other studies, this panel invites us to learn about the different ways in which sovereignty relates to international politics and, through that, explore new ways to think about it.

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State Sovereignty in the age of strategic competition: China’s extraterritorial forays in Europe	View Paper Details
Conflict, Extreme Weather, and Transformation of Sovereignty in the Pacific	View Paper Details
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Sovereign Exclusion of the Rohingya	View Paper Details
The Legacy of the Century of Humiliation and China's South China Sea Policy	View Paper Details