Overview
Presents a radical, new theoretical elaboration upon the concept of sovereignty
Makes innovative use of deconstructionism to reveal the unorganised hypocrisy of modern state sovereignty
Is the first to concretely bridge the gap between sovereignty theory and practice
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- (Re)claiming Sovereignty
- Applying (neo)positivist scientific standards
- Claims of Sovereignty
- Credibility of Sovereignty
- Deconstructing Sovereignty
- EU Member States
- European Economic Area
- Political autonomy and independence
- Swiss Sovereignty Credibility
- Swiss-EU bilateralism (comitology)
- Swiss-EU relations
About this book
The book deeply analyses the bilateral relations between Switzerland and the European Union and their effect on the former's sovereignty in the context of Europeanisation. This touches on philosophical debates on the complexity of sovereignty. What sovereignty is at stake when talking about Swiss-EU relations? This issue not only faces the elusiveness of sovereignty as a concept, but also the proliferation of hypocrisy on its presence within states. The book encounters the deconstructionist hypothesis stating that there is nothing to worry about but the belief there is something to worry about. Derrida’s deconstruction of sovereignty allows indeed one to grasp the fictional essence of sovereignty based on the metaphysics of presence. The presence of self-positing sovereign ipseity is fictional since absent in the present, but spectrally present in the belief of its presence to come. Sovereignty is a matter of credibility, or the credible promise of a normative statement to come. Hence, the book challenges the realist/neorealist argument stating that states are credibly sovereign until proven otherwise and explains that the debate on state sovereignty calls for the unveiling of this hypocritical epistemology cunningly disguised as an objective presence. Swiss-EU relations thus become the cornerstone to not only theorise but also test sovereignty and deconstruct the two ontological and epistemological sides of the same coin, or the modern hypocrisy of sovereignty. This deconstruction constitutes the very problématique of any attempt to understand whether and how a state can be sovereign and solve the problem as to how to neutralise the différance and identify the difference between credible and incredible claims of sovereignty. This problématique connects the theory and practice of sovereignty innovatively, providing positivist evidence on the arguable credibility of the Swiss claim of sovereignty and confirming the presence of a theological dimension within politics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Credibility of Sovereignty – The Political Fiction of a Concept
Authors: Elia R.G. Pusterla
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26318-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26316-8Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79929-2Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26318-2Published: 19 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 329
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Philosophy, International Relations, Ontology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Political Theory