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 …

Since its modern genesis, the claim to sovereignty has been inherently tied to the notion of freedom: from the Church …, from empires, from colonial powers. More specifically, the freedom that sovereignty promised was the freedom “to be left … alone,” given the premise that unfettered sovereignty was a necessary and sufficient condition for the people and its …

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the … decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by …