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Sovereignty as a source of vitality for the state

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Extract

The title of this paper contains three terms which require definition—sovereignty, vitality and the state. I shall begin by defining these, and shall then discuss various reasons why the state acquires vitality from its possession of sovereignty. Finally I shall ask whether sovereignty is likely to become less significant as a source of vitality, and? if so, what is likely to take its place.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British International Studies Association 1986

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References

1. Angell, Norman, The Great Illusion (London: 1909).Google Scholar

2. See Jacobson, Harold, Networks of Interdependence (2nd edNew York: 1979).Google Scholar

3. Ibid., pp. 386–7.