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In the previous chapter we noted Bartelson’s despair over dissolving the state from the outside in and from the inside out simultaneously (Bartelson 2001, 181). While the proposal for ‘post-states’ and other actors in a recast international realm in Chapter 1 sought to tackle the ‘outside in’ rethinking of the state, this chapter broaches the reconceptualisation of sovereignty from the ‘inside out’, by investigating the powerful analogy at work between liberal principles focusing on the individual on the one hand and the orthodox state form on the other in the modern conception of sovereignty. The aim of this chapter is to counter the claim that sovereignty is a bankrupt concept, by demonstrating the specifically liberal character of the conception that has dominated the modern period.
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Prokhovnik, R. (2007). The Liberal and State Character of Modern Sovereignty. In: Sovereignties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593527_3
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