Concept Of Sovereignty Research Articles

Towards a planetary coalition (a Preamble)

When ‘megafires’ and ‘superstorms’ proliferate, who is the real sovereign of the Anthropocene: anthropos, or nature become monstrous? In the Teracene (‘tera’ meaning ‘monster’), I argue that sovereignty should mean the right to refuse that which turns our existential situation into a horror film, in order to defend what preserves life’s endangered conditions of possibility. To build this right, I first need to deconstruct the concept of sovereignty and to reveal its groundlessness. Acknowledging this groundlessness, I propose an ‘ecopolitics without guarantees’ in which the otherness at the core of possible new Constitutions would not engender an alternative sovereign subject (a subject that would just replace anthropos or the ruling class), but rather an unconditional requirement and the rights that it legitimates. I explain that this unconditional requirement concerns the necessity of caring not only for future generations but also for past ones. I finish my article with a political fiction: the outline of a Preamble for a Constitution able to give voice to the damned of the Teracene. To acknowledge the existence of those suffering from the ongoing exploitation and colonization of the Earth and of those who wither from a future erased in advance, this speculative Preamble is centered not around the present but around the heteronomous, divergent temporality of that which never existed enough and that which threatens to fall out of existence entirely.

‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses

Abstract In recent decades, sovereignty has come under increased academic scrutiny for being a Eurocentric notion antithetical to emancipatory politics, leading critical theory scholars to call for an overcoming or even abandonment of the concept. Paradoxical as it may seem, it nonetheless remains an appealing ideal for many colonised peoples. Indigenous activists and scholars have actively re-appropriated the language of sovereignty to encapsulate and advance Indigenous political aspirations. This paper discusses how Māori, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Indigenous people, navigate their relations to the concept in their contemporary political discourses pursuing self-governance. Building on interviews with Māori leaders, scholars, and activists, it offers empirical insights into Indigenous political thought’s engagement with the idea of sovereignty. It highlights an ambivalence oscillating between rejection and rearticulation present both in Indigenous theorising and Māori politics. From an analysis of Māori contemporary conceptual strategies, this paper suggests that Yarimar Bonilla’s notion of ‘strategic entanglement’ offers a productive account to comprehend the approached Māori actors’ deployment of the sovereignty concept, and possibly that of Indigenous peoples beyond Aotearoa. This paper thus highlights the continued relevance of the sovereignty framework, both analytically and politically, to meaningfully engage with contemporary Indigenous politics.

Future-proofing the people? A comparative analysis of data sovereignty as a discursive practice in Western European right-wing populism’s digital policies

This paper examines the concept of data sovereignty as a discursive practice in light of the populist idea of popular sovereignty and analyzes the digital policies of Western European right-wing populist parties (WEPs). It argues that WEPs use popular sovereignty and data sovereignty in a similar way: as discursive tools to legitimize drawing power back to the national level (with divergent and often contradictory interpretations), rather than workable foundations for policy plans. The paper also discusses how international cooperation, which populists often reject, is a useful tool to achieve data sovereignty. With this contradiction in mind, the paper develops an agent-based typology of data sovereignty as a discursive practice. It then analyzes the most recent official electoral programs of several WEPs: AfD in Germany, PVV and FvD in the Netherlands, UKIP in the UK, Vlaams Belang in Belgium, and Rassemblement National in France. It uses a comparative policy analysis to compare the cases along several data points such as the proposed roles of governments, private companies, and cyber diplomacy. Most of the WEPs under discussion see data sovereignty as synonymous with individual privacy, do not acknowledge the role of international cooperation, and use digital policy as a means of reinforcing their image as challenger parties.

National Sovereignty and Territorial Unification of the Romanian Space: An Intergenerational Concept

The Romanian Constitution of 1923 is framed on the backdrop of a long historical journey, lasting more than a century, of state-building and the emergence of a specific Romanian constitutional tradition. The aim is to retrace this path in its broad phases, attempting to explain it in the light of an interpretative scheme based on a generational approach, taken as a measure of periodization and as an expression of historical and political continuities and changes. The article shows the relevance in Romanian political culture of the principle of national sovereignty, expressed in the concepts of the unity of the state’s territory and independence. Going back to the first reform projects in the first half of the nineteenth century, the article outlines the main attempts at political change based on the link between national integration and territorial unification: from the Romanian national initiatives of the first half of the century (with special attention to the 1848 Revolution) to the Constitution of 1866 and the new reality of Greater Romania after the First World War. A substantial continuity of values and ideas is outlined, assessing the intergenerational dimension of the concept of national sovereignty in Romanian political culture.

Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya

ABSTRACT The article examines how Turkey’s decision to reconvert the Ayasofya Museum into a mosque in June 2020 has shaped the ‘self’ and ‘other’ perceptions of the Greek and Turkish politicians of their respective countries by instrumentalizing the concept of sovereignty. We argue that what has been termed ‘the right to sovereignty’ by Turkey’s leadership through the reconversion of Ayasofya—from a museum to a mosque—is indeed a ‘sovereignty performance’. What is more, we deconstruct how ‘sovereignty performances’ centred on the conversion of Ayasofya produced by Turkey and Greece came to define, narrate and naturalize the essence and standards of ‘national’ and ‘foreign/international’ legitimizing mutual and respective identity perceptions held for themselves and each other.

Мониторинг в бюджетной сфере как инструмент обеспечения финансового суверенитет

The article formulates the concept of financial sovereignty based on the types of financial activities and the principle of integration of public and private interests. It is proved that one of the tools to ensure financial sovereignty is monitoring, implemented within the framework of a specific budget procedure. Based on the subject composition and functional component, the author proposes a classification of monitoring: as a type of budgetary legal relationship, as a method of public finance management, as an auxiliary method.

Internalization of Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Responsibility to Invoke ‘Peace from Within’ Afghanistan by the Taliban Regime (2021)

Internalization of Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Responsibility to Invoke ‘Peace from Within’ Afghanistan by the Taliban Regime (2021)

THE CONCEPTION OF PEOPLE'S SOVEREIGNTY IN INDONESIA: MOHAMMAD HATTA'S THOUGHT APPROACH

Sovereignty of the people is a principle embedded in paragraph IV of the preamble to the opening of the 1945 Constitution. However, the concept of popular sovereignty developed in Indonesia is a different concept from that developed in the West according to Rousseau's teachings. This research is doctrinal legal research using a historical approach and a conceptual approach, namely the idea of people's sovereignty based on Hatta's thoughts as one of the founding figures of the nation. Where the results of the research illustrate that the concept of popular sovereignty developed in Indonesia must be rooted in indigenous Indonesian cultures that have a collectivist pattern, collectivism is here seen as a way to accommodate the diversity of people in Indonesia who are bound by their respective regional characteristics. Conceptually, the people's sovereignty adopted by the Indonesian state contains 5 principles which are grouped into 2 basic principles, namely the essential principle which contains the principle of freedom and the principle of equality, as well as the procedural principle of implementing people's sovereignty which includes the principle of majority vote, the principle of accountability, and the principle of territoriality. The territorial principle is a finding developed from one of the ideals of popular sovereignty for Hatta, namely eliminating cultural nationalism, so that democracy can develop in a button-up manner that accommodates the noble values that exist in Indonesian society.

Liberty of Land, Liberty for God: Between Indigenous Land-Human Relationship and State Sovereignty in French Polynesia

This paper will discuss tiàmāraa faaroo, the concept of religious sovereignty advocated in the Māòhi Protestant Church in French Polynesia, and how it intersects with the idea of political sovereignty. Whilst territorial politics revolves around the possibility of national independence, religious sovereignty suspends the idea of political self-governance, and instead promotes the recovery of Indigenous relationships with the land, a core doctrine of local Christian theology. Religious sovereignty supports a notion of Indigenous sovereignty that is practice-based and conceptually independent of the modern nation-state, but nonetheless is seen to be crucial for national independence, should they wish to achieve it. I suggest how localised Christianity in the Pacific, itself a combination of Indigenous and exogenous epistemologies, provides a model of cultural and temporal hybridity for shaping decolonial futures.

Публично-правовое обеспечение государственного суверенитета в Соединенных Штатах Америки и Федеративной Республике Германия

The sharp aggravation of the international situation in recent years has acutely raised the question of the essence and content of state sovereignty of individual countries. The analysis of foreign experience of public-law provision of state sovereignty on the example of such ‘unfriendly’ states as the United States of America (hereinafter - the USA) and the Federal Republic of Germany (hereinafter also FRG, Germany) has not only cognitive, but also applied value for the improvement of public-law provision of state sovereignty of the Russian Federation. The emergence of the USA as a sovereign state took place in the struggle for independence from Great Britain. The colonial past and opposition to the traditional view of sovereignty as the absolute, unrestricted power of the monarch led to the US adherence to the concept of popular sovereignty, according to which the source of all power is the people. This provision is clearly enshrined in the preamble to the US Constitution, which establishes a system of dualistic federalism, stipulating that not only the federal government, but also the governments of each state within its competence have sovereign powers (granted by the people). The Foreign Agents Registration Act, passed as early as 1938, and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 play an important role in the public law enforcement of US state sovereignty. These laws contain strict requirements for registration of lobbyists and foreign agents, disclosure of information and general transparency of their activities. Legislation on lobbying and agents of foreign influence also exists at the state level. The requirements for lobbying and foreign agents vary from state to state in terms of their strictness and elaboration, differing significantly from federal legislation, but still strengthening the latter and contributing to the state sovereignty of the United States as a whole. German sovereignty is a consequence of the country's difficult history, which lost it as a result of defeat in World War II and had to rebuild it while in the midst of the Cold War and then as part of the unification process. Membership in NATO and later in the European Union, on the one hand, gave the FRG the opportunity to rise to the same level as other European countries and to get most of its sovereign rights back, on the other hand, it led to a limitation of sovereignty. The public-law provision of German state sovereignty is based on the provisions of the supreme legislative act of the country. According to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, while participating in the development of the European Union, Germany can, by means of a law approved by the Bundestag, transfer sovereign rights not only to the European Union but also to intergovernmental institutions. In addition, the exercise of sovereign state powers falling within the competence of the Länder may be transferred by them, with the consent of the Federal Government, to border agencies of neighbouring states. Unlike the USA, counteraction to foreign influence in the Federal Republic of Germany does not have a developed legislative basis. At the normative level, there is no concept of a ‘foreign agent’ and no single act regulating the activities of collective and individual entities that receive funding or other support from abroad. A single normative legal act regulating lobbying activities, the German Lobbyists' Register Act, was adopted only in 2021, and it applies only to the representation of interests in the German Bundestag and in the Federal Government.

"ПО ТУ СТОРОНУ ПРАВОВОЙ НОРМЫ": ПОНЯТИЕ СУВЕРЕН С ПОЗИЦИИ ЮРИДИЧЕСКОГО ДЕЦИЗИОНИЗМА И ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ТЕОЛОГИИ КАРЛА ШМИТТА

The author of the article attempts to analyze the concept of sovereign according to Carl Schmitt’s legal decisionism and political theology. – the doctrines developed by the German philosopher and jurist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985). Decisionism is rightfully considered as one of the basic concepts of Schmitt’s political and legal discourse. In his voluminous treatise “Dictatorship” (1910), Schmitt initiates a detailed doctrine of decizionism, which is based on the adoption of a political decision justified by the relevant authority (and not the law). Later (in 1922), Schmitt publishes his “Political Theology”, which again takes into its optics decisionalism and those of its state-legal concepts that can be correlated with theological ones. Sovereign, sovereignty and state of emergency are the first to belong to them. And finally, in his work “On Three Types of Legal Thinking” (1934), he works out classification of legal thinking (in which it is permissible to assume the simultaneous existence of all three of its types), rejecting normativism and justifying his own inclination towards decisionism and thinking in terms of the specific order. Some researchers of Schmitt’s works – and in particular his “Political Theology” – believe that by correlating sovereign with God, state of emergency with a miracle, and political action with Way of the Cross, Schmitt tried to protect his doctrine of decisionism from any criticism, since being “passed” through the prism of the theological, not the critical politics, it became an object of faith, taking the form and expression of an indisputable dogma. In fact, such an “exploratory” vision of Schmitt’s analogies did not explain either the interpretatively complex theory of the sovereign or his political theology, but only simplified and sometimes vulgarized it. While researching the genealogy of political power, Schmitt attempted to establish a type of sovereign being characteristic for a particular era (the Pope – during the Early and Classical Middle Ages (V–XIV centuries); the Protestant reformer (represented by J. Calvin) – during the late Middle Ages (XVI century), the absolute monarch – during the period of European absolutism (XVI–XVIII centuries), the German people – during the existence of the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–1933), the Reich president – during the birth of national socialism (the 30s of the XX century). The essential nature of each of them is revealed in the process of taking only those political decisions that the German Schmitt defines as decisions on introducing a state of emergency. At the same time, each epoch “sets” its own sovereign, what implies the obligatory subordination of its political decision to the spirit of the time in a particular historical period. Thus, with the progressive development of political theology, (legal) decisionism is also developing, resulted in the concepts of sovereign, sovereignty and emergency decision “acquiring” new semantic meanings

Beyond Westphalia-The Difficulties of the Three Principles of Realism

International actors are fundamental units of research in the field of international relations, with state actors being the primary focus. The political relationships between countries serve as the basis for current mainstream research in international relations theory. However, the author believes that with the evolution of the international system and the increasing complexity of the international community, the traditional Westphalian system and its derivative concept of absolute sovereignty have become outdated. This limits the effectiveness of the current paradigm used to describe objective reality and its ability to guide practical applications. As a result, it is necessary to redefine these propositions. In this paper, the author will use literature investigation and historical analysis methods to deconstruct the three mainstream views of the national center, rational countries, and single country perspectives. This will demonstrate that a variety of international actors and power centers have emerged in the field of international relations and are playing increasingly important roles. This highlights the need to move beyond the limitations of a single nation system towards a more nuanced understanding of international relations. Through a multi-center perspective and utilizing multidisciplinary research methods, including techniques from quantum mechanics, the author will work towards developing a more accurate theory based on the reality of the international relations system.

Conceptualising the relationships between food sovereignty, food security and oral health among global Indigenous Communities: a scoping review.

Invasive colonial influences and continuing neoliberal policies have a detrimental impact on Land, health, food and culture for Indigenous Communities. Food security and sovereignty have significant impacts on Indigenous well-being and, specifically, oral health. Aspects relating to food security, such as availability of nutritious foods, are a common risk factor of oral diseases. This scoping review aimed to collate existing evidence regarding the relationship between food sovereignty and/or food security and oral health for Indigenous Communities, globally. Four databases were searched using keywords related to 'Food security' or 'Food sovereignty,' 'Indigenous Peoples' and 'Oral health.' Duplicates were removed, and two independent reviewers screened the titles and abstracts to identify articles for full-text review. Extracted data were summarised narratively, presenting a conceptual model which illustrates the findings and relationships between food security and/or food sovereignty and oral health. The search identified 369 articles, with forty-one suitable for full-text review and a final nine that met inclusion criteria. The impact of food security and food sovereignty on oral health was discussed across different populations and sample sizes, ranging from eighteen Kichwa families in Brazil to 533 First Nations and Metis households in Canada. Pathways of influence between food sovereignty and/or food security are explored clinically, quantitatively and qualitatively across oral health outcomes, including early childhood caries, dental caries and oral health-related quality of life for Indigenous Communities. Innovative strategies underpinned by concepts of Indigenous food sovereignty are needed to promote oral health equity for Indigenous Communities. The nexus between oral health and Indigenous food sovereignty remains largely unexplored, but has immense potential for empowering Indigenous rights to self-determination of health that honour Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

Обеспечение сырьевого суверенитета как проблемное поле экономической политики европейского союза

The work actualizes the study of problems of resource provision for industrial transformation of EU countries. The purpose of the article is to explore the concept of resource sovereignty as part of the overall policy of achieving strategic autonomy of the European Union. The analysis was based on a cross-country comparison of the levels of import dependence, patent activity and recycling development. The results structure various economic policy measures applied in European countries and identify the intersectoral sphere of ensuring resource sovereignty as a field for deepening European integration.

“The kings said no”. Asserted sovereignty and uncertain performativity in ‘Uvea and Futuna

The territory of the islands of ‘Uvea and Futuna is a paradox: its population generally claims that it has “never been colonized”, on the grounds that the kingship has been preserved and that the land is indigenous. This article shows that the autochthonous conception of sovereignty does indeed accommodate the political limitations imposed by the relationship with the State (since the préfet holds the executive power), as long as the fenua apparently remains under customary control. This belief in the persistence of indigenous sovereignty in a context marked by coloniality gives rise to variously expressed claims in ‘Uvea and Futuna, both in the public arena and in everyday life.

Bioautonomia a zawieszenie (między)gatunkowej wspólnotowości. "Pokarm suweren" Kacpra Bartczaka wobec filozofii suwerenności

The article, which is an analysis of Kacper Bartczak’s poetry collection "Pokarm suweren" ["Food Sovereign"], presents the characteristics of the title figures (food and sovereignty), their interdependence and their significance for the issues addressed by the poet. The interpretation is built against the background of the concept of sovereignty as understood by Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Readings of individual poems aim to demonstrate that Bartczak’s lyrical subjects, in the course of experience, attempt to approach a (neo)vitalism tailored to their world-feeling, and thus initiate the objective imperative of the power of biology, deriving this necessity from the idiomatically seen poetic language – a source of order located outside the system of technopolitics and arbitrary law, but deeply connected to life.

Decolonizing moana stomachs: recipes for food sovereignty from Oceania

Colonialism, militarization and contemporary corporate food regimes have eroded the food sovereignty of the populations of Oceania. Such phenomenon named gastro-colonialism, has not only shaped local foodways with tinned and processed food, building a taste for it, but also made islands dependent from external food provisioning. In order to stress the relevance of the food sovereignty paradigm as a new arena for the emergence of collective actions in Oceania, this article analyzes firstly, the food sovereignty concept within the wider sovereignty issue, highlighting the plural and interconnected nature of sovereign-ties. Secondly, by analyzing the imperial forces accountable for such food dependency, it addresses the case of Tonga where the inalienability of the land could possibly shape a food sovereign milieu. Lastly, through a selection of indigenous artists, poets and writers bringing forward Hau‘ofa legacy it illustrates possible “recipes” that could be scaled up to decolonize moana foodscapes.

VERTICAL SOVEREIGNTY: WHAT MATTERS

Numerous academic works have explored the intricate concepts of sovereignty and jurisdiction in relation to territory. However, customary international law recognises that a state's territory comprises land, airspace, and territorial seas, making the topic even more complex. This article investigates the significance of airspace in terms of a state's sovereignty, discussing the legal basis for a state's authority over its airspace to maintain economic and political control, peace, and stability. By examining international conventions, treaties, and cases, this study uses a juridical-normative methodology to comprehend the notion of airspace sovereignty in international law and identify what constitutes and instances of an infringement of a state's airspace sovereignty. Ultimately, this research aims to lay the foundations for insights into what matters for airspace sovereignty. The resolution highlights the significance of diplomacy and international cooperation in addressing issues related to the violation of territorial airspace.

СУВЕРЕННАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА КАК ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА: СУЩНОСТЬ, ПРИНЦИПЫ, ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ В РОССИИ

The Russian economy is currently facing serious challenges due to the complex geopolitical and geo-economic situation in the world. We can talk about a period of strong economic and political turbulence, which radically changed the views of scientists and practitioners on approaches to the development of the Russian economy. In this situation, the issues of ensuring the economic security of the Russian Federation and the formation of its economic sovereignty are of particular relevance. The relevance and novelty of the topic of the article is also confirmed by the insufficient study of the problems of the formation of the sovereign economy as an economic system in relation to Russian reality. The purpose of writing this article is to study the concept of economic sovereignty.
 The article reveals the essence of the sovereign economy as an economic system, provides the author's definition of the concept of “sovereign economy”. The article also discusses the principles of building a sovereign economy and the prospects for its formation in Russia.

People's Sovereignty in the Intertime Change of Members of The Indonesian Council of Representatives

This journal discusses the role and implementation of the concept of people's sovereignty in the context of the intersection of members of the Indonesian People's Council of Representatives. (DPR-RI). The sovereignty of the people, as a fundamental principle in a democratic system, is the primary foundation in the process of the realization of the will of people through political representation. This journal specifically explores how people's sovereignty is reflected in the replacement mechanism of DPR-RI members over time. Through a legal and political analysis approach, the journal outlines the legal framework that regulates the process of replacement of members of the DPR-RI and identifies the factors that influence the successful implementation of people's sovereignty in that context. This research includes a study of the role of related institutions, such as political parties and the General Election Commission, inining integrity and representation in line with people's aspirations. The results of this study provide a deep understanding of the extent to which the sovereignty of the people is preserved and updated in the process of changing members of the DPR-RI over time. The implications of these findings can provide valuable insights for policy formulation, the development of democratic systems, and the strengthening of people's political participation in the Indonesian context