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

主权定义了国家的边界，但它也塑造了各国人民和政府之间充满活力的经济、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，并以军事力量为后盾。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--以国家立法和司法裁决的形式--是规范跨境资本流动的主要手段之一，法律是此类研究的理想和现实焦点。本论文项目将由Kevin Sobel-Read在威廉·奥巴尔博士的监督下进行，旨在通过研究法律在管理全球资本流动中的核心作用以及法律监管与国家主权之间的关键关系来揭示现代国家主权的关键方面。这项研究将在南太平洋地区进行，重点是库克群岛和新西兰。鉴于大多数库克岛民居住在新西兰，考虑到这两个国家之间的财富差异，对库克岛民资本流动的跨境分析提供了对发展中国家和发达国家的国家主权和金融监管之间的相互影响的特别洞察。该项目将通过重叠的法律、档案和民族志方法进行。收集的数据将提供一种手段：(1)绘制库克群岛内外库克岛居民之间的资本流动地图；(2)根据库克群岛和新西兰的相关法律法规分析资本流动，查明监管对资本流动的影响以及如何影响。因此，目标是更充分地理解全球化力量和国家权力的持续作用之间的关系，帮助解释21世纪主权的性质和一般过程。

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.