Reconsidering statehood: examining the sovereignty/intervention boundary
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Review of International Studies
- Vol. 18 (3) , 199-216
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210500117231
Abstract
R. B. J. Walker recently noted that far from its largely accepted status as an ‘essentially contested’ concept, state sovereignty is instead an essentiallyuncontested concept. This is a seemingly paradoxical comment for an international relations theorist to make in light of the recent revival of academic scrutiny concerning sovereign statehood. Rather than marking an inattention to recent trends in the sovereignty literature, Walker's statement is a commentary on the way sovereign statehood has been studied. Walker writes of sovereign statehood:Keywords
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