State Sovereignty and Intervention

New paperback edition of State Sovereignty and Intervention by Helle Malmvig

“Helle Malmvig has written a book that takes us beyond existing critical and historical analysis analyses of the concept of sovereignty, and right into the realm of contemporary political rhetoric. In her book, she describes how the concept of state sovereignty takes on different meanings depending on its different usages in justifying actual practices of intervention and non-intervention in the international system. A main upshot of this argument is to show that sovereignty and intervention not only are mutually constitutive concept but also are hierarchically arranged insofar as sovereignty can be regarded as normal only by intervention being considered as pathological, and vice versa. In order to substantiate this bold claim empirically Malmvig analyses how the Algerian conflict came to demand justifications of non-intervention in the international community, and how the largely simultaneous conflict in Kosovo came to call for justifications of intervention from the same community” From the Foreword by Professor Jens Bartelson.

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