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Cosmopolitanism in a multipolar world : soft sovereignty in democratic regional powers /

"Popular wisdom, international relations scholarship, and much of rising powers' foreign policy rhetoric contends that such powers comprise a conservative coalition united by the desire to protect the principle of national sovereignty against its erosion. However, the empirical analysis of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plagemann, Johannes (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:International political theory.
Subjects:
Sovereignty.
Cosmopolitanism > Developing countries.
Democracy > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization.
Cosmopolitanism.
Democracy.
Developing countries.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary Of Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • PART I: Cosmopolitanism, sovereignty and multipolarity
  • 1.1 Regional and Rising Powers in International Political Theory
  • 1.2 Cosmopolitanism
  • 1.3 Cosmopolitan Sovereignty and Practice Dependency
  • PART II: The transformation of sovereignty
  • 2.1 Sovereignty on the Subnational Level
  • 2.2 Sovereignty on the Transnational Level
  • 2.3 Sovereignty on the Supranational Level
  • PART III: The transformation of sovereignty in Brazil
  • 3.1 Subnational Level
  • 3.2 Transnational Level
  • 3.2.1 A New Institutional Layer?
  • 3.2.2 Disillusionment and Consolidation
  • 3.3 Supranational Level
  • 3.3.1 Foreign Policy Thinking under Cardoso and Lula da Silva
  • 3.3.2 Regional Integration
  • 3.4 Brazil: Conclusion
  • PART IV: The transformation of sovereignty in India
  • 4.1 Subnational Level
  • 4.2 Transnational Level
  • 4.2.1 Participatory Experiments
  • 4.2.2 Changing Forms of Protest
  • 4.3 Supranational Level
  • 4.3.1 India's Foreign Policy Thinking and National Sovereignty
  • 4.3.2 Regional Integration
  • 4.4 India: Conclusion
  • PART V: The transformation of sovereignty in South Africa
  • 5.1 Subnational Level
  • 5.2 Transnational Level
  • 5.2.1 Forms of Engagement: Winners and Losers
  • 5.2.2 Professionalism and Constituency Building in a Context of Fluidity
  • 5.3 Supranational Level
  • 5.3.1 South African Foreign Policy Thinking
  • 5.3.2 Regional Integration
  • 5.4 South Africa: Conclusion
  • PART VI: Soft sovereignty and fact-sensitive cosmopolitanism
  • 6.1 Soft Sovereignty And Complex Multipolarity
  • 6.2 Complex Multipolarity and Cosmopolitanism
  • 6.3 A Moderate, Plural, and Embedded Cosmopolitanism for a Complex and Multipolar World
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix.