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In this chapter I argue that the notion of state sovereignty presupposes that the place of politics is pre-eminently the state. Recent developments in both theory and practice, however, compel reconceptualization of the political. The familiar but diverse developments I have in mind have often seemed readily divisible into two categories: those emphasizing international and even global affairs, on the one hand, and those concerned with more local, particularistic, or even interstitial politics on the other.
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Pierre Rosanvallon, ‘The Decline of Social Visibility’, in John Keane (ed.), Civil Society and the State, (1988) pp. 202 – 3.
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Stern, D.S. (1996). State Sovereignty, the Politics of Identity and the Place of the Political. In: Denham, M.E., Lombardi, M.O. (eds) Perspectives on Third-World Sovereignty. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24937-4_3
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