Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Sovereignty

Edited by Marinos Diamantides, Professor of Constitutional Law and Political Theory, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, Michel Rosenfeld, University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, USA and Giuseppe Martinico, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy

• ContentsPART I  EPIGENESIS: SOVEREIGNTY IN EUROPEAN HISTORY,RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY1 Power and legitimation: ideas of ‘sovereignty’ in classic Athens 11Antoni Abat i Ninet2 Sovereignty and empire under Rome 29Clifford Ando3 Sovereignty in Byzantium: concepts and practices 40Anthony Kaldellis4 The nexus between sovereignty and the rise of the modern state 57Kostas Chrysogonos5 The phantom of sovereignty in contemporary political philosophy 74Seyla BenhabibPART II  SOVEREIGNTY BEYOND EUROPE6 Contesting sovereignty: indigenous legal and political responses to settlercolonialism in Canada 94Amy Swiffen7 Shared sovereignty and shared humanity in the Jewish rabbinic tradition: aforgotten tradition 112Suzanne Last Stone8 Perfect match or impossible union: Islamic conceptions of sovereignty 126Masoud Zamani and Majid Nikouei9 Sovereignty from Confucian perspectives 144Wen-Chen Chang and Pei-Jung Li10 The politics of law and sovereignty in colonial India: dharma, artha, andthe ideological origins of the Republic of India 159Sunil PurushothamPART III  FUNCTIONAL AND SYMBOLIC DIMENSION OF SOVEREIGNTY11 Caught between theoretical and practical reason: Immanuel Kant’s‘inscrutable’ sovereign 182Panu Minkkinen12 Sovereignty’s trajectory within the bounds of modern democraticconstitutionalism 194Michel Rosenfeld13 Sovereignty and the European Union: an enduringly awkward fit 218Neil Walker14 Secession and sovereignty 236Costanza Margiotta15 Sovereignty, illiberalism, and populism 252Giuseppe MartinicoPART IV  SOVEREIGNTY IN ITS CONTESTED CONTEMPORARY SETTINGS16 Sovereignty and exceptionalism: rights, constitutions and security 284Chris Thornhill17 Between over-sovereignty and under-sovereignty: symbolic force andtransconstitutional limits of state sovereignty 303Marcelo Neves18 Labour as constituent power 321Emilios Christodoulidis19 Biopower and sovereignty in Foucault and Agamben 342Tom FrostPART V  WHY SOVEREIGNTY?20 For a critique of sovereignism 361Nadia Urbinati21 The epigenesis of the sovereign fantasy: from political theology torelational exposure 375Marinos Diamantides22 International relations and the myth of sovereignty as equality: differenceand the hierarchies of race and civilisation in the making of sovereignty 405Xavier Mathieu23 Reclaiming power: anarchism, sovereignty and indigenous thought 422James R. Martel24 The context of the governed: popular sovereignty as the projection of“democracy” 433Zoran Oklopcic25 Feminist perspectives on sovereignty 452Ruth Houghton

‘A towering achievement, bringing together many leading thinkers to address a vexed but vital issue with which politics and constitutions have grappled for centuries. The Handbook offers a compendious review of the concept, history, function, symbolism and sites of contestation surrounding sovereignty. It should be a highly valuable reference point for students and scholars alike.’