Sovereignty: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men

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Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tiipa, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupōuri) (PhD) is Professor of Demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, Aotearoa New Zealand. She co-edited Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda and is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. From that time onwards, international law has developed to allow sovereign States to cooperate and not only to coexist. As of 1945, IOs and institutions have proliferated at a regional level and more globally to organize and enhance those forms of cooperation. The creation of the UN in 1945 is an example, but one can also mention the EU’s predecessor entities: the three European Communities created in 1951 and 1957. European integration remains a unique example of post-national integration and political autonomy beyond the State.

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Authors like Bodin or Hobbes feared the division of sovereignty as much as its limitation. In a post-Westphalian world where competences are not only transferred, but also concurrent or shared, however, such fears have become obsolete; the division of competences has indeed become the rule in the EU and beyond. This applies in almost all domains and at all degrees of authority. The division of sovereignty can be vertical or horizontal, depending on whether it takes place among distinct political entities such as two States or between a State and the EU, or whether it takes place within a single political entity according to territorial or other federal divisions or according to distinct political functions. In the EU, the division of sovereignty goes along both vertical and horizontal lines.I have to give Ryan Michler credit for being a man of action who speaks from experience and shares his knowledge with the reader.

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In international law, internal sovereignty is used to mean the supreme authority within a territory or the ultimate power within that territory ( Customs Regime between Germany and Austria [Advisory Opinion] [Individual Opinion of Judge Anzilotti] 57). These two definitions refer to very different facets of sovereignty which correspond to its normative and empirical dimensions. Both have been present at different times in the evolution of the concept of internal sovereignty and their tension underlies most of the concept’s history. A third additional conception of sovereignty is absolute independence or freedom and it captures what is at stake in external sovereignty (arbitrator Max Huber in the Palmas Island Arbitration). In the first instance, Tombs is too true to his profession to peddle the Brexiter myth that continued membership of the EU was incompatible with the historic identity of “our island nation”. He knows that other European countries have “histories of struggles for independence and democracy at least as proud as our own, but which so far they find compatible – if with some strain – with European integration”. Even though there exists a historical and conceptual link between these two forms of sovereignty, as discussed above, it is important to distinguish between them in practice. Stephen Krasner weighs in on a growing debate over the continued relevance of sovereignty today. Is it declining or not? Is the state system about to be replaced by something else? Krasner's book will spark much debate and become required reading for all those who wish to think seriously about the nature of sovereignty today."—Hendrik Spruyt, Columbia UniversityUnlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State,’ Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11(3): Vanessa Ogle, 'Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1970s,' American Historical Review 122 (2017): 1431-1458. I constantly promote reading to my peers and social media followers. Reading enhances use of the brain, stimulating more intellectual thought than what would occur otherwise. In addition, the material consumed can offer benefits through education.