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The Postnational Constellation Revisited: Critical Thoughts on Sovereignty

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor William Outhwaite

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Abstract

‚Sovereignty‘ has become a shibboleth in the twenty-first century, no-tably in the US, Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Poland, and in the Brexit débâcle in the UK. This paper traces thw way in which Habermas’s concept of the post-national constellation has been developed in more recent work, and takes it as a reference point for the evaluation of the cult of national sovereignty which has become prominent in the present century. The argument outlines two broad re-sponses: one is to ‚transnationalise‘ the concept of sovereignty to reflect the reali-ty of an interdependent world; the other is to reject it as an inappropriate way of thinking about political self-determination under modern conditions.

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Author(s): Outhwaite W

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Berlin Journal of Critical Theory

Year: 2021

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Pages: 31-57

Online publication date: 10/01/2021

Acceptance date: 27/07/2020

ISSN (print): 2567-4048

ISSN (electronic): 2567-4056

Publisher: BJCT

URL: http://www.bjct.de/files/Issues%20of%20the%20BJCT/BJCT_1-2021.pdf

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