Olivier Legrand

Agnew J. (2005), " Sovereign Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics", Annals of The Association of American Geographers, Vol. 95 (2), Blackwell, pp.437-461 I propose a concept of effective sovereignty to argue that states participate in sovereignty regimes that exhibit distinctive combinations of central state authority and political territoriality. Two basic conclusions, drawing from recent research in political geography and other fields, are that sovereignty is neither inherently territorial nor is it exclusively organized on state-by-state basis. This matters because so much political energy has been invested in organizing politics in general and democracy in particular in relation to states. Typically, writing about sovereignty regards sovereignty as providing norm that legitimizes central state authority. Unfortunately, little or no attention is given as to why this should always entail a territorial definition of political authority and […]

APPENDIX: MAKING THE LEAP FROM ANALYSIS TO ACTION Local anti-Imperialist Responses: Our job is not just to expose elected official who talk the language of inclusion in order to promote acceptance of greater personal sacrifice by both machines, but to make sure their role in preparing the public and local government for intensified imperialist war is blocked. Some of the strategies open to us include the following: 1) Municipal Autonomous Zones? The local equivalent of autonomous zones, such as co-housing, offers little help in opposing the immediate impacts of the war machine. While they may give modest relief to those who can forge a cooperative life style, they do not alter any of the domestic or foreign component of imperialism. In effect, they accept the bad hand dealt local government since the second Nixon administration of 1968-1972 through cutbacks and deindustrialization. Instead they offer modest alternatives to simply play this bad hand better, to survive on less. What […]