A New Conception Of Soverignty In An Era Of Global Governance

The new globalized order presents new problems,but also new opportunities.The key to confronting the problems and realizing the opportunity is developing the ability to manage problems of a global scale,climate change foremost among them.This study aims to put efforts towards global governance on firmer footing by tackling the fundamental assumption of the “international relations” model of global governance: sovereignty.The study attempts to unify the legal and political conceptions of sovereignty around a central productive tension—a duality—usually set up as the opposition between legitimacy and exclusion and resolved in the paradox between constitutive political will and constraining legal institution.The study thus defends the continued viability of a particular conception of sovereignty and opens new avenues for research into the “hows” of operationalizing this new conception of sovereignty in supranational governance.The first section deals with the history of sovereignty as a concept,drawing out many of the aspects,and possible meanings,of sovereignty.This history straddles legal and political scholarship,and from that interplay the study derives a series of dynamics that have driven the development of sovereignty.The application of these dynamics to a critical examination of contemporary literature both sharpens and broadens the possibilities for sovereignty in globalized era,culminating in the presentation of a new conception of sovereignty and a brief demonstration of the power of a new,dualistic conception of sovereignty.Finally,the study concludes with a detailed examination of the Paris Accords,the CMA/COP meetings following therefrom,and the materialization of the agreement's shortcomings with the announced planned departure of the United States from the Accords.