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The life and death of states : Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty / Natasha Wheatley.

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"Canonical theorists of sovereignty (Hobbes, Rousseau, and others) put the monopoly of power at the center of their definitions. These thinkers abstracted from western European experiences to universal norms. In the wake of their transformative contributions, states that did not fit the model a...

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Main Author: Wheatley, Natasha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Europe, Central > International status.
Austria > Politics and government > 1848-1918.
Newly independent states > Europe, Central > History > 20th century.
International law.
Newly independent states.
Politics and government.
Austria.
Central Europe.
1848-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Making a world of states
  • Constitution as archive : drafting the empire, 1848-1860s
  • The secret science of double sovereignty : 1867 and after
  • Fictional states : lands and nations
  • Pure theory : Jellinek and Kelsen reinvent legal philosophy
  • What is a new state? 1919 in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
  • State birth at the frontier of knowledge : reimagining international law from post-imperial Vienna
  • Sovereignty in sequence : law, time, and decolonization
  • Conclusion. The temporal life of states.

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