State sovereignity and intervention : a discourse analysis of interventionary and non-interventionary practices in Kosovo and Algeria / Helle Malmvig.

"First published in 202006. First issued in paperback 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-195) and index.

"Introduction " -- Chapter 1: Sovereignty as Discourse -- Chapter 2: Analytical Strategies -- Chapter 3: From Object of Observation to Object of Intervention -- Chapter 4: Sovereignty and Intervention -- Chapter 5: From Object of Concern to Object of Non-Intervention -- Chapter 6: Sovereignty and Non-Intervention -- Chapter 7: Contrasting Constitutions -- Chapter 8: Sovereignty Intervened -- "Bibliography "

"This book contests sovereignty, a concept which until recently remained unchallenged within IR theory and international law.".

"Helle Malmvig offers a Foucault-inspired discourse analysis of the intervention in Kosovo in 1999 and the non-intervention in Algeria in 1998. The author explores sovereignty as a discursive construction and investigates the way sovereignty is affected by practices of intervention and non-intervention. The detailed contemporary case studies illustrate that state sovereignty has been constructed differently over time, and also highlight how sovereignty within the same historical period can be constructed in different and even contradictory ways; state sovereignty varies not only in time, but also in space.