State of Sovereignty

Douglas Howland is the David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.Luise White is Professor of History at the University of Florida.

"[This book's] contribution lies in the rich and well-researched empirical case-study chapters that demonstrate in detail the various different ways in which territory, populations, and authority structures have been organized relative to one another in different places and times.Vol. 23.2 April 2010"—Eric A. Heinze, University of Oklahoma"The multidisciplinary character of the contributions reinforces the focus of the work . . . that sovereignty is socially constructed and that it changes with time and place. . . . [N]early unique in presenting the different operationalizations of sovereignty while avoiding the superficiality of other attempts to do so."—William Reno, Northwestern University

• ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Sovereignty and the Study of StatesDouglas Howland and Luise White2. Sovereignty on the Isthmus: Federalism, U.S. Empire, and the Struggle for Panama during the California Gold RushAims McGuinness3. The Foreign and the Sovereign: Extraterritoriality in East AsiaDouglas Howland4. Wilsonian Sovereignty in the Middle East: The King-Crane Commission Report of 1919Leonard V. Smith5. Colonial Sovereignty in Manchuria and ManchukuoDavid Tucker6. Alternatives to Empire: France and Africa after World War IIFrederick Cooper7. The Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The United States and the Global Human Rights Cases of the 1940s and 1950sMark Philip Bradley8. What Does It Take to Be a State? Sovereignty and Sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965–1980Luise White9. Legal Fictions after EmpireJohn D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan10. Sovereignty after Socialism at Europe's New BordersKeith Brown11. Environmental Security, Spatial Preservation, and State Sovereignty in Central AfricaKevin C. Dunn12. The Paradox of Sovereignty in the BalkansAida A. Hozic13. The Secret Lives of the "Sovereign": Rethinking Sovereignty as International MoralitySiba N. GrovoguiList of ContributorsIndex