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  • Rethinking sovereignty and development
    Sørensen, Georg
    We are used to thinking of sovereignty and development as two sides of the same coin. Yet the positive relationship between sovereignty and development has been increasingly questioned by the ... trajectory of sovereign statehood since the 1950s. First, globalisation appears to challenge sovereignty in fundamental ways. Second, a large number of countries that obtained sovereignty in the context of post-war decolonisation have not been able to get development under way in any meaningful sense. In the light of these events, how should we currently assess the relationship between sovereignty and development? Sovereignty is an institution that changes over time in order to accommodate new circumstances; multilevel governance is emerging in some parts of the developed world. As regards the post-colonial world, the author would argue that for a number of countries sovereignty in its present form is no longer conducive to a rapid process of development. This lack of a positive relationship between sovereignty and development in large parts of the post-colonial world could be the greatest current challenge facing the global society of sovereign states.
    Source: Journal of international relations and development. - ISSN 1408-6980 (Vol. 2, no. 4, December 1999, str. 391-402)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1999
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 19465053