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Conditional Sovereignty

Changes in and Fragmentation of State Sovereignty

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In this chapter, we analyse how state sovereignty has been changing away from the Westphalian concept. Particular attention is directed to the emergence of conditional sovereignty in the form of democracy/human rights today. How far has a normative change in this direction taken place, and what may it imply for the use of force in a pro-democratic direction?

States make war and war makes states

Tilly (1990: 32)

The point is that the meaning of sovereignty changes continuously

van Staden (2002)

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Matlary, J.H. (2006). Conditional Sovereignty. In: Values and Weapons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599734_2

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