A Puzzle of Sovereignty
A Puzzle of Sovereignty
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主权之谜
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10.4324/9781351150361-2
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1997
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Steven Lee
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民族国家的主权问题是一个难题。一方面，国家主权的概念在我们对全球政治变革的描述和处方中占有重要地位。例如，东欧在苏联解体之前和之后的政治变化的一个自然特征是，一些政治社区积极地而且往往成功地主张主权。更一般地说，世界政治竞技场中的大多数事件自然被理解为国家的主权行动。此外，许多人抱怨说，主权妨碍解决世界上许多最紧迫的问题，应该放弃，从而暗示主权仍然是一个现实。因此，主权概念继续适用于国际政治生活的现实，并保持其解释效力。与此相反的是，有人声称，由于全球事务的当代现实，主权已变得无关紧要，是一个过时的概念。这里的意思不是说主权应该被放弃，也不是说主权在规范上是不相关的（尽管这种主张也经常被提出），而是说主权已经不复存在。根据这一观点，有些因素剥夺了国家的主权，剥夺了它们保护自己及其公民免受其他国家或外部集团行动的负面影响的能力。这些因素中最重要的是
The subject of the sovereignty of the nation-state presents a puzzle. On the one hand, the notion of state sovereignty figures importantly in our descriptions of, and our prescriptions for, global political change. For example, a natural characterization of the political changes in Eastern Europe preceding and following the demise of the Soviet Union is that a number of political communities have vigorously and often successfully asserted claims to sovereignty. More generally, most of the events in the world political arena are naturally understood as the sovereign actions of states. In addition, many complain that sovereignty stands in the way of solutions to many of the world's most pressing problems and ought to be abandoned, thereby implying that it remains a reality. Thus, the notion of sovereignty continues to apply to the realities of international political life and retains its explanatory efficacy. Against this is the claim that, as a result of the contemporary realities of global affairs, sovereignty has become irrelevant, an anachronistic notion. What is meant is not that sovereignty ought to be abandoned, that it is, as it were, normatively irrelevant (though this claim is often made as well), but rather that it has already ceased to exist. On this view, there are factors that have drained states of their sovereignty by depriving them of the ability to protect themselves and their citizens from the negative effects of the actions of other states or outside groups. The most important of these factors is the