Jean-Marc
Piret: Politics, Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism in Times of Globalisation
In this paper I
reconstruct the historical significance of the concept of sovereignty and I
defend its relevance against the critique of Hannah Arendt. I argue that
sovereignty, understood as the concept that expresses the normative unity of
the legal order, is not incompatible with plurality and constitutionalism and
that it was the condition for the formation of inter state
law. Further I criticize
the abstract moralism that characterizes todayÕs cosmopolitanism and the
paradigm of global governance. Although the significance of sovereignty is
shifting in the context of globalisation, it is not becoming irrelevant because
it symbolizes the right of political self-determination of a community as well
as the capacity to transfer some portion of its regulatory competence to a
supra-national legal order.
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