About the Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. About the Authors xi
5. 1. Problematic Sovereignty 1
6. 2. Sovereignty: The Practitioners’ Perspective 24
7. 3. Sovereignty from a World Polity Perspective 53
8. 4. The Issue of Sovereignty in the Asian Historical Context 83
9. 5. One Sovereign, Two Legal Systems: China and the Problem of Commitment in Hong Kong 105
10. 6. The Struggle for Sovereignty Between China and Taiwan 141
11. 7. The Sovereignty Script: Red Book for Russian Revolutionaries 194
12. 8. Belarus and the Flight from Sovereignty 224
13. 9. Compromised Sovereignty to Create Sovereignty: Is Dayton Bosnia a Futile Exercise or an Emerging Model? 252
14. 10. The Road to Palestinian Sovereignty: Problematic Structures or Conventional Obstacles? 301
15. 11. Explaining Variation: Defaults, Coercion, Commitments 323
16. Index 345