Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy by J. Mostov (English) Hardco

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While sovereignty is increasingly contested within academic circles, most recent military conflicts have been over issues of sovereignty in some form. Focusing on Yugoslavia in the 1990s, this book explores the issues surrounding 'sovereignty' and calls for a radical rethinking of the notion and the institutions and practices that it grounds.

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Studies in democratic theory and international relations increasingly take globalization and fragmentation as a starting point for discussion, assuming the decreased relevance of the nation-state as a given. However, while the notion of sovereignty is increasingly contested within academic circles, most recent military conflicts have been over issues of sovereignty in some form. Traditional understanding of the term has invested it with a potential for violence on the one hand. and impotence on the other. Focusing on the case of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, this book explores the issues surrounding 'sovereignty' and calls for a radical rethinking of the notion and the institutions and practices that it grounds.

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Author Biography

JULIE MOSTOV is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Humanities at Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA. She is author of Powers, Process, and Popular Sovereignty (Temple University Press, 1992).

Table of Contents

Globalization and Fragmentation Locations and Boundaries of Sovereignty Democracy, Ethnocracy, and Sovereignty Soft Borders and Sovereignty Reconstructing the Polity

Review

"Julie Mostov s book Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy encourages us to look at the key problems of the twenty first century from a novel perspective that is not only inspiring and theoretically interesting but also practically possible. This work is based on her extensive knowledge of ethnic conflicts in Southeastern Europe and the problems of citizens who find themselves trapped within the "hard borders" of ethnocratic states, as well as on her understanding of current trends in the West to build new fortresses against labor migration. Mostov does not offer easy solutions or call for the end of the state, but in the context of global integration, fragmentation, and new possibilities of communication she shows us a way to rethink the concepts of democracy, sovereignty, and citizenship and offers an innovative notion of multi-layered cooperation among transnational citizens in fluid and multiple soft border polities. " - Vesna Pe ic , senior scientific associate of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade University, human rights and peace activist, and Member of Serbian Parliament"In Soft Borders, JulieMostovweaves apolitical theory of borders around their operative contingency andpervasive injustice in the world of globalization.Explaining why hard borders foster a violent, exclusionary, and repressive politics of ethnocracyby fixing and naturalizing difference and creating vulnerable "others" inside and outside national boundaries, she argues persuasively for a viable alternative,already in the making: "soft" border practices and institutions designedto securetransnational citizen rights in spaces of human mobility." - David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization, History Department, New York University

Long Description

Against hard border thinking and traditional notions of sovereignty, this work is an argument for soft borders and transnational citizenship exercised through multiple and overlapping polities: negotiable and fluid spaces of political association. The work does not romanticize movement, but recognizes the cruel grasp of border politics on people's lives. It rejects a notion of sovereignty that fixes political identities into hierarchical geographies of place, facilitating the movement and well-being of some at the expense of others. The argument for soft borders is a plea to reverse the trend of building walls for peace and security and an appeal to open rather close the opportunities and avenues for collective action.

Review Quote

"Julie Mostov's book Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy encourages us to look at the key problems of the twenty first century from a novel perspective that is not only inspiring and theoretically interesting but also practically possible. This work is based on her extensive knowledge of ethnic conflicts in Southeastern Europe and the problems of citizens who find themselves trapped within the "hard borders" of ethnocratic states, as well as on her understanding of current trends in the West to build new fortresses against labor migration. Mostov does not offer easy solutions or call for the end of the state, but in the context of global integration, fragmentation, and new possibilities of communication she shows us a way to rethink the concepts of democracy, sovereignty, and citizenship and offers an innovative notion of multi-layered cooperation among transnational citizens in fluid and multiple soft border polities. "-- Vesna Pešic , senior scientific associate of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade University, human rights and peace activist, and Member of Serbian Parliament"In Soft Borders, Julie Mostov weaves a political theory of borders around their operative contingency and pervasive injustice in the world of globalization. Explaining why hard borders foster a violent, exclusionary, and repressive politics of ethnocracy by fixing and naturalizing difference and creating vulnerable "others" inside and outside national boundaries, she argues persuasively for a viable alternative, already in the making: "soft" border practices and institutions designed to secure transnational citizen rights in spaces of human mobility."--David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization, History Department, New York University

Details ISBN1403965536 Short Title SOFT BORDERS Pages 216 Language English ISBN-10 1403965536 ISBN-13 9781403965530 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2008 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9781403965530 AU Release Date 2008-11-17 NZ Release Date 2008-11-17 US Release Date 2008-11-17 UK Release Date 2008-11-17 Illustrations VIII, 216 p. Author J. Mostov Publisher Palgrave USA Publication Date 2008-11-17 Alternative 9781349528950 DEWEY 320.12 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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