Democracy Paradox Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty
My book is in some ways trying to help us see not only the kind of deep intermingling of pre-modern and modern ideas of sovereignty, but how we repeat some of those more fantastical attributes of sovereignty that we might otherwise presume to be long gone remnants of a more superstitious or religious age.
Natasha Wheatley
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Natasha Wheatley is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty.
Key Highlights
- Introduction - 0:40
- The State as Modern and Pre-Modern - 2:52
- The Habsbug Empire - 9:21
- Collapse of an Empire - 24:09
- The State and International Law - 40:55
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The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty by Natasha Wheatley
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