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Author_Stephen D. Krasner
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Colonialism
Commonwealth of Nations
Communism
Communist state
Creditor
Czechoslovakia
De facto
Decolonization
Diplomacy
Diplomatic recognition
Domestic policy
Dominion
Eastern Bloc
Eastern Europe
Employment
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Exclusion
Failed state
Foreign policy
Freedom of religion
Government in exile
Great power
Helsinki Accords
Institution
International Court of Justice
International financial institutions
International law
International Monetary Fund
International organization
International relations
Latin America
Latvia
League of Nations
Legislation
Lithuania
Martha Finnemore
Masahiko Aoki
Member state
Minority rights
Modernity
National security
Neoliberalism
Nicaragua
Non-interventionism
Peace of Westphalia
Peace treaty
Political structure
Political system
Politician
Polity
Ratification
Robert Keohane
Ruler
Self-determination
Slavery
Sovereign state
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Sphere of influence
State (polity)
State of affairs (sociology)
Stipulation
Tax
Treaty
Tributary state
Voting
Western Europe
Westphalian sovereignty
World Bank Group
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- ISBN 9780691007113
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the sovereign state. Here a leading expert challenges this conclusion. Stephen Krasner contends that states have never been as sovereign as some have supposed. Throughout history, rulers have been motivated by a desire to stay in power, not by some abstract adherence to international principles. Organized hypocrisy--the presence of longstanding norms that are frequently violated--has been an enduring attribute of international relations Political leaders have usually but not always honored international legal sovereignty, the principle that international recognition should be accorded only to juridically independent sovereign states, while treating Westphalian sovereignty, the principle that states have the right to exclude external authority from their own territory, in a much more provisional way.
In some instances violations of the principles of sovereignty have been coercive, as in the imposition of minority rights on newly created states after the First World War or the successor states of Yugoslavia after 1990; at other times cooperative, as in the European Human Rights regime or conditionality agreements with the International Monetary Fund. The author looks at various issues areas to make his argument: minority rights, human rights, sovereign lending, and state creation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Differences in national power and interests, he concludes, not international norms, continue to be the most powerful explanation for the behavior of states.
Stephen D. Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations and a Senior Fellow in the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Defending the National Interest: Raw Material Investments and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton) and Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism, and is the editor of International Regimes.
