Sovereignty and Borders

Sarah Fine

Sovereignty and Borders

Philosophy

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This chapter explores some central conceptual, descriptive-explanatory, and normative approaches and questions related to sovereignty and borders. It examines the concept of sovereignty in historical perspective, focusing on Thomas Hobbes’s defence of absolute sovereignty in Leviathan (1651). It introduces arguments in favour of limiting the state’s sovereignty, and considers some key developments to that effect in international law. It also reflects on the question of where sovereignty resides. Next it assesses the relationship between sovereignty and borders, and in particular the issue of the authority to control movement across borders. It emphasises the importance and complexity of these themes with a closer look at the place of sovereignty and borders in the UK’s 2016 Referendum on its membership of the European Union.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Issues in Political Theory
Editors	Catriona McKinnon, Robert Jubb, Patrick Tomlin
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	12
Edition	Fourth
ISBN (Print)	9780198784067
Publication status	Published - May 2019

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