. They test the prevailing wisdom about sovereignty and state capacity, and sort out the humbug. They consider whether … sovereignty itself is an impediment or a requirement to security and prosperity. And, in three urgent areas ripe for progress z …

and the common interest of mankind / Wang Xinyan -- Globalization and state sovereignty / Yu Keping -- Challenges of …

synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging … democracies and shows that - in stark contrast to emerging democracies' foreign policy rhetoric - the "softening" of sovereignty … has become the norm. The present paper assesses this softening of sovereignty on the basis of a "democratic …