Law, Power, and the Sovereign State: The Evolution and Application of the Concept of Sovereignty. (book reviews)

Janice E. Thomson, University of Washington

Fowler and Bunck begin by contrasting contemporary academics' pronouncements of the demise of sovereignty with its continued, even heightened relevance in international relations practice, and they suggest that "it is thus perhaps appropriate to reexamine the relevance and application of sovereignty to modern international affairs" (pp. 3-4). After examining a range of theoretical, conceptual, and definitional issues concerning state sovereignty, the authors do an empirical analysis of some historical and contemporary cases in ...

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