Sovereignty and Minorities: Towards Reshaping Postcolonial National Identities?

Sovereignty, Socialism and Development in Postcolonial Tanzania

Human Rights, Autonomy and National Sovereignty

This paper examines the legal and ethical problems involved in reconciling two separate rights, each of which plays a fundamental role in the current philosophical debate surrounding international relations and international law: the right to national sovereignty to which many states lay claim, on the one hand, and the right to selfdetermination, on the other. Refusal to grant the right of self...

Telecommunications , Politics , Economics , and National Sovereignty

TECHNOLOGY—the societal process for the pro duction and operation of artifacts, both tangible and intangible—impacts virtually every other so­ cietal structure and process and is, in turn, influenced by them. From its inception at the early emergence of humans as a distinct species, technology was the in­ strument that extended our biological capabilities, eventually making possible increasingl...

National Development Generates National Identities

The purpose of the article is to test the relationship between national identities and modernisation. We test the hypotheses that not all forms of identity are equally compatible with modernisation as measured by Human Development Index. The less developed societies are characterised by strong ascribed national identities based on birth, territory and religion, but also by strong voluntarist id...

A Lab of Their Own: Genomic sovereignty as postcolonial science policy

This paper analyzes the emergence of ‘genomic sovereignty’ policies as a newly popular way for postcolonial countries to frame their investment in genomics. It identifies three strands in the genealogy of this policy arena—the International Haplotype Mapping Project as a model and foil for postcolonial genomics; an emerging public health genomics field which stands in contrast to Western pursui...