Introduction; Part I Historical and theoretical overview; Chapter 1 Sovereignty in World Politics: a Glance at the Conceptual and Historical Landscape With Robert Jackson; Chapter 2 A Puzzle of Sovereignty With Steven Lee; Chapter 3; Sovereignty and Symbolization With Hans Lindahl, Tilburg; Chapter 4 Ten Tenets of Sovereignty With Martin Loughlin; Part II Locating Sovereignty within the State; Locating Sovereignty; Chapter 5 The basis of legal sovereignty, H.W.R. Wade; Chapter 6 Parliamentary sovereignty and the new constitutional order: legislative freedom, political reality and convention, Mark Elliott; Chapter 7 Sovereignty at the beginning of the 21st century: fundamental or outmoded?, K.J. Keith. Political Sovereignty; Chapter 8 Popular sovereignty and nationalism, Bernard Yack; Chapter 9 The European nation state, its achievements and its limitations: on the past and future of sovereignty and citizenship, Jurgen Habermas; Chapter 10 Reframing sovereignty?: sub-state national societies and contemporary challenges to the nation-state, Stephen Tierney. Part III Locating Sovereignty Beyond the State; Sovereignty and the International Order; Chapter 11 Sovereignty and international law, Hans Kelsen; Chapter 12 Re/statements: feminism and state sovereignty in international law, Karen Knop; Chapter 13 Sovereignty and inequality, Benedict Kingsbury; Chapter 14 Globalization, sovereignty and the rule of law: from political to economic constitutionalism?, Kanishka Jayasuriya; Chapter 15 Law of states, law of peoples: 3 models of sovereignty, David Held; Chapter 16 Sovereignty-modern: a new approach to an outdated concept, John H. Jackson; Chapter 17 Ironies of sovereignty: the European Union and the United States, Robert O. Keohane. Sovereignty and the European Union: Chapter 18 Beyond the sovereign state, Neil McCormick; Chapter 19 Sovereignty and European integration: the weight of legal tradition, Bruno de Witte; Chapter 20 Late sovereignty in the European Union, Neil Walker;