Pub Date : 2018-12-21DOI: 10.4324/9780429492044-11
Caterina García i Segura, J. Etherington
The sovereign nation-state has traditionally been conceived as the main actor in the international system, with the ability to pursue independent foreign policy considered an integral part of state sovereignty. While international relations have always been more than the sum of inter-state relations, in recent years the rescaling of social, political, economic and cultural systems has produced a plethora of actors and networks both public and private, and at different territorial scales that question central states’ monopoly in international relations and, potentially, the very nature of sovereignty. This paper deals with the external action of sub-state regions, which has grown exponentially in last decades, and asks under what conditions is this external action perceived as a challenge to nation-state foreign policy and, by extension, to the sovereignty of the nation-state. We center our analysis on the development of SSE external action in Spain since the reestablishment of democracy in 1978, and specifically that of Catalonia. The analysis of this case is understood as a plausibility test for checking the factors and the conditions under what paradiplomacy turns to protodiplomacy.
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{"title":"The European multilevel party system","authors":"A. Schakel","doi":"10.4324/9780429492044-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492044-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148873,"journal":{"name":"Changing Borders in Europe","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128346961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-21DOI: 10.4324/9780429492044-15
J. Jordana, Adam Holesch, M. Keating, A. Marx, J. Wouters
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Pub Date : 2018-12-21DOI: 10.4324/9780429492044-14
M. Moore
This paper examines the relationship between territory, boundaries, and self-determination, focusing especially on the relationship between functional justifications for state territory and state borders, and that of self-determination. It argues that a successful justificatory argument for territorial right appeal to the idea of ‘self-determination’, and responds to the usual criticism of this norm, while also accepting some role for functional justifications. It argues that functional explanations for state territory are valid, and that a state has to achieve the goods that justify it (so is functional in that sense) but that this argument is compatible with many different territorial configurations. It also argues that an appeal to ‘self-determination’ is a much more plausible argument (along with functionalism as a necessary but not sufficient condition), and argues that the ‘self ’ ought to be defined in a way that is non-ethnic and non-statist and shows how such a definition could be helpful.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-21DOI: 10.4324/9780429492044-13
S. Tierney
{"title":"Undermining federal projects? Referendums in the United Kingdom and the European Union","authors":"S. Tierney","doi":"10.4324/9780429492044-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492044-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148873,"journal":{"name":"Changing Borders in Europe","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122037378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability in political unions","authors":"P. Beramendi","doi":"10.4324/9780429492044-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492044-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148873,"journal":{"name":"Changing Borders in Europe","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115560860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EU and the recognition of states","authors":"Jessica Almqvist","doi":"10.4324/9780429492044-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492044-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148873,"journal":{"name":"Changing Borders in Europe","volume":"332 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114234265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.4324/9780429492044-10
Neil Walker
This paper examines the growing influence of reflexive over teleological nationalism in sub-state movements. Teleological nationalism is the more conventional modern type, involving a menu of set goals, the ultimate being full sovereignty. Reflexive nationalism, by contrast, involves an adjustable relationship between a self-defining ‘people’ and a set of institutional platforms, where collective goals are cumulative rather than predetermined, relative rather than absolute. Reflexive nationalism claims a standing right to decide - 'sovereignty of choice' rather than ‘sovereignty of outcome’. Particularly in the unsettled environment of contemporary multi-layered Europe, where the supranational EU challenges the sovereign authority of member states, national movements (in Scotland, Catalonia, Flanders etc.,) tend towards reflexive nationalism. Sometimes they become an established part of the governmental landscape, their long-term aspirations de-emphasized. Yet questions remain. First, is reflexive nationalism transferable between settings? Is the ‘right to be taken seriously’ as regards questions of self-determination an emerging European or even global norm, or, as the case of Catalonia has vividly demonstrated in very recent times, is its acceptance or rejection purely a matter of local constitutional law and politics? Secondly, is it legitimate? Is it ‘fair dealing’ in terms of the recognition also due the self-determination claims of existing national sovereigns? Thirdly, is it sustainable long term? Is the 'right to decide', regardless of what is decided, a meaningful proto-sovereignty, and, if so, can sovereignty’s delivery be deferred indefinitely without losing that right to decide?
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