Contemporary French Politics.

French Aesthetics: Contemporary Painting Theory

On Law, Politics and Contemporary Constitutionalism

Is the political process, with all its difficulties, merely reflective of contemporary constitutionalism? Are the problems an aspect of ongoing inter-communal dialogue? To what extent are existing difficulties exacerbated by a general failure to grasp the difference between the logic of law and political theory and practice? These questions are addressed here in three basic stages: first, the r...

Logical Nihilism in Contemporary French Philosophy

Recanati takes for granted the conveyance conception of linguistic communication, although it is not very clear exactly where he lies on the spectrum of possible variations. Even if we disavow all such conceptions of linguistic communication, there will be a place for semantic theory in articulating normative concepts such as logical consistency and logical validity. An approach to semantics fo...

Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics

I propose a concept of effective sovereignty to argue that states participate in sovereignty regimes that exhibit distinctive combinations of central state authority and political territoriality. Two basic conclusions, drawing from recent research in political geography and other fields, are that sovereignty is neither inherently territorial nor is it exclusively organized on a state-by-state b...

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues NINTH EDITION