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Complex Sovereignty

Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-First Century

edited by Edgar Grande & Louis W. Pauly

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2005
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802095282
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802038814
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $74.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442684201
    Publish Date
    Dec 2005
    List Price
    $93.00

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The way humanity governs itself is today changing very rapidly. Profound transformations in structures of political authority are underway in Europe, North America, and beyond. Nation-states remain central, but they cannot address the most pressing problems facing their own citizens without moving away from traditional understandings of sovereignty itself. Complex Sovereignty contends that just such a movement is underway.

Editors Edgar Grande and Louis W. Pauly and the contributors to this volume elucidate the meaning of ‘complex sovereignty’ through a set of conceptual and empirical studies including governance in the European Union and North America, the emergence of private-public partnerships, the adaptation of established international organizations, and the search for innovative mechanisms to manage risk. They reveal a fascinating and vitally important struggle to give coherence to a complicated governing system of multiple and overlapping hierarchies. This is an original, collaborative study crossing the disciplines of political science, international relations, sociology, and political economy.

About the authors

Edgar Grande is a professor of political science at the University of Munich.

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Louis W. Pauly is a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science and director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

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