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State Sovereignty in International Relations: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Empirical Research
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This article explores many of the key theoretical and analytical issues attending empirical research on state sovereignty. It reviews recent research on sovereignty, the state, and state-building in an attempt to summarize what we now know or think we know about state sovereignty. Bringing the fruits of that research to bear on the concepts that define state sovereignty, I offer some criteria from which analysts might derive empirically testable propositions about sovereignty's historical status and future prospects. In conclusion, I argue that research on these issues should be (re-) directed to the bedrock of sovereignty: rule making and enforcement authority, or what I call policing.
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- Authors
- Thomson, J. E.
- Venue
- International Studies Quarterly
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1995-06
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 213
- ISSN
- 0020-8833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2319786738
- Cited by
- 284
- References
- 40
- FWCI
- 43.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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