Joan Cocks Libros

Exploring nationalism's dual nature, Joan Cocks delves into its role as both a catalyst for community and a source of conflict. By analyzing the perspectives of eight influential intellectuals, including Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg, she highlights the intricate relationship between nationalism and political engagement. Cocks uncovers the tensions faced by these thinkers as they navigate the fine line between critical detachment and passionate involvement, offering fresh insights into the complexities of nationalism in modern thought.

Winner of the 2015 David Easton Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association (APSA)Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed ethnic minorities, popular masses ruled by foreign powers or homegrown tyrants, indigenous peoples, and individuals chafing under customary or governmental restrictions.On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions draws on political theory and on two case studies - the encounter between Anglo-American settlers and Native American tribes, and the search for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine - to probe the allure of the idea of sovereign freedom and itsself-defeating logic. It concludes by shifting its sights from political to economic sovereign power and by pursuing intimations of non-sovereign freedom in the contemporary age.