State Sovereignty and the Articulation of Political Space/Time

See, among many others, Richard K. Ashley , 'Untying the Sovereign State: A Double Reading of the Anarchy Problematique', Millennium Journal of International Studies (Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 1988), pp. 227-62; Richard K. Ashley and R.B.J. Walker. 'Reading Dissidence/Writing the Discipline: Crisis and the Question of Sovereignty in international Studies ', International Studics Quarterly (Vol. 34, No. 3, September 1990), pp. 367-416; R.B.J. Walker and Saul H. Mendlovitz (eds.), Contending Sovereignties: Rethinking Political Community (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1990); Janice E, Thomson , 'Sovereignty in Historical Perspective: The Evolution of State Control Over Extraterritorial Violence', in James A. Caporoso (ed.), The Elusive State: International and Comparative Perspectives (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989), pp. 227-54; and Michael Shapiro , 'Sovereignty and Exchange in the Orders of Modernity', Alternatives (Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 1991), pp. 447-77.

For a more extensive exploration of the rituals of eternal presence and imminent absence that have been such an important part of attempts to analyse change in international relations, see R.B.J. Walker , 'Sovereignty, Identity, Community: Reflections on the Horizons of Contemporary Political Practice', in Walker and Mendlovitz, op. cit, in note 1, pp. 159-85.

These last two names, of course, involve an intentional transgression of the conventional canon, and serve as a reminder of the extent to which codifications of state sovereignty in international law often have been cleansed of references to the statist power politics with which they are nevertheless indelibly associated. See, especially, Carl Schmitt, (trans.), George Schwab , Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985); and Max Weber , 'Politics as a Vocation', in H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds. and trans.). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), pp. 77-128. See also W J. Stankiewiez (ed.), In Defence of Sovereignry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969); and F.H. Hinsley , Sovereignty, Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986),

Nicholas Onuf , 'Sovereignty: Outline of a Conceptual History ', Alternatives (Vol. 16, No, 4, Fall 1991), pp. 425-46.

Compare, for example, Martin Wight , Systems of States ( Leicester. Leicester University Press, 1977); Perry Anderson , Lineages of the Absolutist State (London: New Left Books, 1974); Immanuel Wallerstein , The Modern World System: Capitolist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic Press , 1974); Joseph Strayer , On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970); Charles Tilly (ed.), The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975); Hinsley , op. cit, in note 3; Alan James , Sovereign Statehood (London: George, Allen and Unwin, 1986); and Kenneth Dyson , The State Tradition in Western Europe (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1980).

David Campbell , 'Global Inscription: How Foreign Policy Constitutes the United States', Alternatives (Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 1990), pp. 263-86.

See, for example, Walker and Mendlovitz (eds.), op. cit., in note 1; Warren Magnusson and R.B.J. Walker , 'Decentring the State: Political Theory and Canadian Political Economy', Studies in Political Economy (Vol. 26, Summer 1988), pp. 37-71; and Rajni Kothari , State Against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance ( New York: New Horizons Press, 1989 ).

Recent meditations on this theme include James Der Derian , 'The (S)pace of International Relations: Simulation, Surveillance, Speed," International Studies Quarterly (Vol. 34, No. 3, September 1990), pp. 295-310; Paul Virilio , Speed and Politics (New York; Semiotext(e), 1987); Frederic Jameson , Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham. NC: Duke University Press, 1991); and Anthony Giddens , The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990).

As it does, for example, behind the so-called levels of analysis distinction in theories of international relations, which is nothing more, nor less, than a vertical articulation of a horizontal spatiality, See, R.B.J. Walker , Inside/Outside (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), ch.6.