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"people", National And State Sovereignty

Posted on:2005-07-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F QiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360122985570Subject:International relations
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With feminist standpoint as its epistemology and gender a major category, this thesis exposes the androcentrism and the masculinity/femininity dichotomy embedded in the conception of state external sovereignty which emphasizes autonomy and exclusivity, analyzes the numerous problems people encounter when they try to put this idea into practice, and insists that this traditional idea be reconstructed according to the feminist standpoint theory.The first two chapters argue that the birth of the Sovereign Man in the Renaissance and early-modern episteme helped people to imagine their political community as sovereign and the conception of state external sovereignty borrowed much from the works of those modem political theorists such as Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Drawing on the feminist object-relations theory and its analysis of the concept of autonomy, the following two chapters anatomize the two major principles implicated in the conception of state external sovereignty, namely, territoriality and non-intervention, and argue that because of their inner contradictions and the omnipresent relatedness in the world politics, these principles have never been made a reality and have been revised to a great extent, the most obvious instance being the predicament the Third-World peoples have been in no matter in the colonial period or in the post-colonial period. The conclusion of this thesis is that the traditional conception of state external sovereignty should be replaced by the conception of relational sovereignty which emphasizes relatedness, care, and empathy.
Keywords/Search Tags:state external sovereignty, gender, feminist standpoint, autonomy territoriality, non-intervention, care, relational sovereignty
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