I have just finished reading Stephen Krasner’s book, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy.
In this relatively slim work, Krasner analyzes the durability and performance of norms of sovereignty in the international system. It has been frequently argued, particularly in the late 1990s, that globalization is eroding long-standing respect for sovereignty challenging the ability of states to exercise control over their territory, governance, and international affairs.
Krasner explicitly positions his book as a critique to this literature noting that challenges to state sovereignty are nothing new in world politics. Rather, a broader historical view reveals that states and international actors have long interfered in each others’ affairs with at least as much intensity as we see today. What has changed is our perception of the legitimacy of those challenges. Whereas it would be difficult to countenance the conquest of one state by another, other equally less subtle violations of sovereignty occur on…
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