SOCY426 | Scholarly Review Essay | A Reading of ‘Containing the Umma?: Islam and the Territorial Question’ by Derrick Matthew | | Daniel Lochner | 3/6/2013 | | In his article from the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion‚ “Containing the Umma? Islam and Territorial Question”‚ author Matthew Derrick looks to identify and discuss the lack of appreciation of territoriality in influencing modern Muslim identities. He proposes to do so by using a range of examples‚ which
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led to a decline in nationstate sovereignty? To address this question there is a need to clarify the concepts of the nation-state and nationalism. A decline in U.S. nation-state sovereignty would serve to promote megacorporate power manifest in the rise of the corporate state over that of the nation- state. Evidence of U.S. nationstate decline appears in many areas‚ such as that of Article XVI in the WTO and policies of the IMF. The decline in nation-state sovereignty is also evident in U.S. policies
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monarchs encouraging their subjects to feel loyalty towards the newly established nations. Nation states (being the country) have sovereignty‚ which means that they have the right to make all the laws within the territories they govern‚ but also allows them to make treaties with other states and these treaties are the primary source of international law. State sovereignty is the states exclusive right to make laws for its own people without interference from outside countries. It is defined by having
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The dawn of the new era The height of corporate power The quest for a balanced system Fundamental principles of international economic law The definition of international economic law The basis of international economic law Economic sovereignty Permanent sovereignty over natural resources (PSNR) Fundamental principles of international economic law The institutional structure of international economic law Institutions The UN and its specialised agencies 1 7 7 8 11 13 14 16 17 18 19 21 21 22 22
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“The new society is made up of networks” (Castells‚ 695). Manuel Castells argues that we are living in a network society of the Information Age in his work‚ Toward a Sociology of the Network Society. This new society was not created accidentally by an accident. It was emerged at the end of twentieth century when five social changes (information technology revolution‚ globalization‚ cultural manifestation‚ the fall of nation state and the development of ecological consciousness) were interacted together
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even with all the above ingredients‚ sovereignty is only truly achieved by the recognition of you as a state by other states. For example‚ North Cyprus believe that they should be a separate state‚ but they have to be recognized by other states
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the Search for Order in the 17th Century What is Absolutism? Absolutism or absolute monarchy was a system in which the sovereign power or ultimate authority in the state rested in the hands of a king who claimed to rule by divine right. Sovereignty In the 17th century‚ having sovereign power consisted of the authority to: Why Absolutism? A response to the crises of the 16th & 17th centuries A search for order— As revolts‚ wars‚ and rebellions died down‚ the privileged classes
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Globalization can be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions‚ expressed in transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity‚ interaction and power (see Held and McGrew‚ et al‚ 1999). It is characterized by four types of change. First‚ it involves a stretching of social‚ political and economic activities across frontiers‚ regions and continents. Second‚ it is marked by the intensification
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in the development of the modern state system. Prior to this the European medieval organization of political authority was based on a vaguely hierarchical religious order. Contrary to popular belief‚ Westphalia still embodied layered systems of sovereignty‚ especially within the Holy Roman Empire.[4] More than the Peace of Westphalia‚ the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 is thought to reflect an emerging norm that sovereigns had no internal equals within a defined territory and no external superiors as the
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Building Democracy After Conflict THE CASE FOR SHARED SOVEREIGNTY Stephen D. Krasner Stephen D. Krasner is Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations and director of the Center on Democracy‚ Development‚ and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. His books include Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999) and Problematic Sovereignty (2001). ne of the major foreign policy challenges of the contemporary era‚ indeed perhaps the major challenge‚ is how to encourage the development
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