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State Sovereignty as Social Construct.(Review) (book review)
American Political Science Review, September, 1999 by Philpott, Daniel
State Sovereignty as Social Construct. Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 298p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
The title of this edited volume announces its ambition to treat two axial themes in current international relations scholarship. Challenges to the Westphalian sovereign states system are among the most notable and surprising international political developments since the end of the Cold War. Constructivism, which stresses the malleability and construction of state interests and identities, has been simultaneously ...
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