http://www.sovereigntyblog.com Companion blog to Redefining Sovereignty Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:43:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One Man’s Vision for Peace in Long-Troubled Kashmir: Separatist Leader Puts Ideas in Book (Emily Wax, 7/28/07, Washington Post) Sajad Lone perused the tattered, yellowed pages of a book he salvaged from his father’s library. Written nearly 60 years ago during Kashmir’s prosperous but brief heyday of self-rule, the book detailed ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/07/28/there-is-no-india-2/ ‘Constitutions are created by revolutions, not jurists’ : In our era of nitpicking over dull charters of rights, the republication of the Declaration of Independence should make your heart beat faster. (John Fitzpatrick, July 2007, spiked review of books) It is refreshing…and very instructive, to have the opportunity to look ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/07/27/the-anglosphere-seeks-its-own-level/ In Africa, an island of democracy asks: Where is US help?: Somaliland, a breakaway republic of Somalia, considers itself a model for the region. (Ginny Hill, 7/19/07, The Christian Science Monitor) During the last 16 years, as Somalia has torn itself apart, Somaliland’s leaders have disbanded a guerrilla movement, drafted ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/07/19/welcome-to-the-club/ The Old World Order (ADAM KIRSCH, July 18, 2007, NY Sun) Like the peace-makers at the end of every great war, the powers who assembled at Vienna promised the world that its sacrifices would not go for nothing. Napoleon had redrawn the map of Europe according to his own wishes, erasing ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/07/19/diplomats-dont-get-to-determine-borders-peoples-do/ Can the “American dream” belong also to the world? (Richard Rorty, 2007-06-10, Open Democracy) The thought that America is a place where values and institutions are being nurtured that could eventually transform the world crystallised in the middle of the 19th century. Those were the days of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/06/11/you-hate-to-kick-a-guy-in-his-casket-but/ Former Taiwan President Lee Says Island `Independent’ (Hiroshi Suzuki, June 9, 2007, Bloomberg) Taiwan is an independent nation and should strive to free itself from China’s influence, former President Lee Teng-hui said on the last day of a trip to Japan. “Taiwan has been independent, and the Taiwanese people have the ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/06/10/itd-be-a-good-first-step/ The End of Politics (Mark Lilla, 06.17.03, New Republic) Somewhere in his writings Leo Strauss remarks that the Jewish problem is the political problem in nuce. This pregnant remark was meant to invite two sorts of reflections. One, the most obvious, concerns the historical fate of world Jewry, from the ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/06/09/berlin-vs-jerusalem/ Politics without sovereignty is not politics at all: He may be a ‘professional exile’, but a new book reminds Frank Furedi that the ideal of national sovereignty is worth defending today: a review of Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique Of Contemporary International Relations, Christopher J Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe and Alexander ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/05/04/redefined-and-then-defended/ US experts call for new trade system (Krishna Guha, April 20 2007, Financial Times) [The Atlantic Council of the US], which is chaired by two former US commerce undersecretaries, said the struggle to complete the Doha round showed that it was no longer possible to make meaningful progress in a global ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/04/23/trade-without-transnationalism/ THE ANGLOSPHERE VS. JIHAD: a review of A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES SINCE 1900 BY ANDREW ROBERTS (JOHN O’SULLIVAN, April 15, 2007, NY Post) ‘LES Anglo-Saxons,” argues Andrew Roberts, were united by the English language and by the Common Law. Still more links were listed by Winston Churchill in 1943: ... http://www.sovereigntyblog.com/2007/04/16/the-coda-least-of-all/