Introduction: The crisis of modern sovereignty; PART 1: POSITION; Chapter 1: Modern sovereignty and the nation state: a failure of grounds; Chapter 2:Autopositioning: the groundless ground of modern sovereignty; PART 2: RELATION; Chapter 3: The constitutive function of relation; Chapter 4: The relation of sovereigns at the national and international levels: India and the WTO; Chapter 5: The relation of sovereigns at the international, national and local levels; Conclusion
Biography
Richard Joyce is based in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Australia
The work develops a detailed and convincing account of (post)modern sovereignty that will be of great interest to many, offering a sophisticated and innovative theoretical orientation for thinking in this area. By detaching sovereignty from the state, Joyce’s auto-positioned sovereignty offers ways of understanding how and why sovereign claims remain alluring, but ultimately impossible, at both a local and international level. - Daniel Matthews, Birkbeck Law School for Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2014
Richard Joyce’s Competing Sovereignties (CS) is a monograph whose argumentative eloquence and intellectual provocation has absolutely emerged as one of the foremost among the last generation of works on modern states sovereignty. - Elia R.G. Pusterla, London School of Economics and Political Science for Swiss Political Science Review (2014) Vol. 20(1)
