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‚Sovereignty‘ has become a shibboleth in the twenty-first century, no-tably in the US, Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Poland, and in the Brexit débâcle in the UK. This paper traces thw way in which Habermas’s concept of the post-national constellation has been developed in more recent work, and takes it as a reference point for the evaluation of the cult of national sovereignty which has become prominent in the present century. The argument outlines two broad re-sponses: one is to ‚transnationalise‘ the concept of sovereignty to reflect the reali-ty of an interdependent world; the other is to reject it as an inappropriate way of thinking about political self-determination under modern conditions.
Author(s): Outhwaite W
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Berlin Journal of Critical Theory
Year: 2021
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Pages: 31-57
Online publication date: 10/01/2021
Acceptance date: 27/07/2020
ISSN (print): 2567-4048
ISSN (electronic): 2567-4056
Publisher: BJCT
URL: http://www.bjct.de/files/Issues%20of%20the%20BJCT/BJCT_1-2021.pdf