sovereigns and later found new legitimacy in the rise of popular sovereignty, thus becoming a definitive feature of the modern … inventiveness and financial investment. In the internet era, the state’s capacities to control its public information environment … affairs, public figures and public institutions. In this transition to supranational authority, the sovereignty of the state …

China has grown into the largest global destination for foreign investment and the second largest outbound investment … state. These developments underscore China's centrality to the expansion and stability of the international economic order …, not limited to the economic impact of its inbound and outbound investors.An ensuing question is the extent to which China …

Based on idea of the analysis of symbolic representations of sovereignty and framework of post …-structuralist international relations theory this research is exploring the performative nature of sovereignty in a comparative empirical … perspective. We have taken four well-known speeches on sovereignty issues to see which symbolic representations of sovereignty …