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How to evaluate international relations
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In this seminar I want to talk about how to evaluate international relations. To present ways of thinking about the effects of cross-border policies; to examine the interplay between states and corporations in an ever connected world. The evaluation is made in relation to the nation state and its capacity to exercise supreme political authority, or else sovereignty. To proceed with the analysis, we need a concept of sovereignty that accounts for the actual power a state can wield compared to the normative claims it may have. By that I mean that there is a distinction to be made between two facets of sovereignty, namely, headline and effective sovereignty. Headline sovereignty is what we typically refer to when we speak about internationally recognised nation states. Every state enjoys the rights of equality, independence, and territoriality. Equality means that no one nation’s sovereignty can take precedence over another’s. Independence suggests that each nation state is a political whole, and that other nations cannot interfere in its internal affairs. As for territoriality, it provides the physical confines within which the nation can claim a right to sovereign authority. Further…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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