Doctoral Dissertation Research: State Sovereignty and the Regulation of Cross-Border Capital in the Global Age

博士论文研究：全球化时代的国家主权与跨境资本监管

• 批准号: 0958182
• 负责人: William O'Barr
• 金额: $ 1.48万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-15 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; State; Sovereignty

Sovereignty defines the boundaries of nationhood, yet it also shapes the dynamic economic, political, and cultural relationships between peoples and governments. In the conventional view, sovereignty hinges on physical control over territory, backed by military force. But global capital flows are challenging the essence of traditional notions of sovereignty. Moreover, because law - in the form of national legislation and judicial decisions - is one of the primary means of regulating the flow of cross-border capital, law is an ideal and practical focal point for such a study.The present dissertation project, to be conducted by Kevin Sobel-Read under the supervision of Dr. William O' Barr, seeks to shed light on key aspects of modern state-sovereignty by examining the central role of law in the management of global capital flows and, in turn, the critical relationship between legal regulation and state sovereignty. The research will be conducted in the South Pacific region, focusing on the Cook Islands and New Zealand. Given that a majority of Cook Islanders reside in New Zealand, and given the differences in wealth between these two nations, a cross-border analysis of Cook Islanders' capital movement offers special insight into the interplay between the state sovereignty and financial regulation of developing and also developed nations.The project will be carried out through overlapping legal, archival, and ethnographic methods. The data collected will provide a means: (1) to map the movement of capital among Cook Islanders inside and outside the Cook Islands; and (2) to analyze that movement of capital against relevant legal regulation in the Cook Islands and New Zealand, pinpointing where and how the regulation affects the capital flow. As such, the goal is to offer a fuller understanding of the relationship between the forces of globalization on the one hand and the continuing role of state power on the other, helping to explain the nature and general processes of sovereignty in the 21st century.

主权界定了国家的边界​​，同时也塑造了人民和政府之间动态的经济、政治和文化关系。在传统观点中，主权取决于对领土的实际控制，并有军事力量的支持。但全球资本流动正在挑战传统主权概念的本质。 此外，由于法律（以国家立法和司法判决的形式）是调节跨境资本流动的主要手段之一，因此法律是此类研究的理想和实际焦点。本论文项目由凯文·索贝尔-里德（Kevin Sobel-Read）在威廉·奥巴尔（William O' Barr）博士的指导下进行，旨在通过考察法律在全球资本管理中的核心作用来阐明现代国家主权的关键方面。 流动，进而影响法律监管与国家主权之间的关键关系。该研究将在南太平洋地区进行，重点是库克群岛和新西兰。鉴于大多数库克群岛居民居住在新西兰，并且考虑到这两个国家之间的财富差异，对库克群岛居民资本流动的跨境分析为了解发展中国家和发达国家的国家主权与金融监管之间的相互作用提供了特殊的见解。该项目将通过重叠的法律、档案和人种学方法进行。收集的数据将提供一种方法：(1) 绘制库克群岛境内外库克群岛居民的资本流动图； (2) 根据库克群岛和新西兰的相关法律法规分析资本流动，查明法规在何处以及如何影响资本流动。因此，我们的目标是一方面更全面地理解全球化力量与国家权力持续作用之间的关系，有助于解释 21 世纪主权的性质和一般过程。