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Sovereignty

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410592150 on OpenAlexaff
Arjun Chowdhury

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Conflict and Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSovereigntyPolitical scienceLawPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract Sovereignty is a concept that is considered simultaneously central to International Relations theory and so historically variable as to be meaningless. I show how we can retain the concept of sovereignty as central to the study of world politics and understand why it appears so variable by approaching sovereignty as a relationship of mutual recognition—between rulers and ruled and between rulers—rather than the property of an entity like the modern state that delineates what is internal and external to the state. Recognition is based on intersubjective understandings of what is appropriate behavior and who is capable of it, and these can change. Recognition can be withheld, which can lead to the breakdown of recognition within a polity or between polities. Finally, there are different combinations of internal and external recognition and nonrecognition, which lead to a variety of forms of authority in world politics. I illustrate these dynamics with reference to the case of Haiti.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.064

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.012
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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