Sovereignty: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men

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b) From the 19 th Century to the Early 20 th Century: Matching Domestic Sovereignty with International Sovereignty It means we have right to this land. It is our land. We never ceded the right to the land, the sea and the air. We have never given that right away. We never told white people in any way that we had given them this country. There are no contracts of any sort, no treaties. It is still our land. Those three phenomena, ie delegation of sovereign powers to IOs, international law’s internal subject matters and its relative normativity, have at first been interpreted as restrictions on both internal and external sovereignty. In an increasing number of cases, international law seems to be limiting States’ sovereignty without their consent; sovereignty is therefore limited but no longer only in a self-limiting fashion. Sovereignty is often said, as a result, to have been circumscribed and tamed or even relinquished in the second half of the century.

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I was completely fixed on this book when I started reading it. The content connected so greatly with me that I couldn’t stop reading it. I have similar feelings, and Ryan’s words of wisdom and encouragement really cemented these ideas into my brain. Stephen Krasner played a key role in transforming state sovereignty from a neorealist presumption into an object of sustained inquiry. Thus his new book is particularly noteworthy. . . . Keeping different kinds of sovereignty straight is crucial to the study of international relations, whether at the hands of neorealists or constructivists, nonliberal institutionalists, or postmodernists."—Fred H. Lawson, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Sovereignty in the sense of contemporary public international law denotes the basic international legal status of a state that is not subject, within its territorial jurisdiction, to the governmental, executive, legislative, or judicial jurisdiction of a foreign state or to foreign law other than public international law." [1] This is EXACTLY what Dedicated to Discipline is all about, which is why this quote really hit home for me. I’m here to show you all the way of discipline, all while I increase my own levels of discipline. Ryan Michler has already reached an incredible level of discipline and it shows in his writing. This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.Is it any wonder that men, in general, seem to have lost their way? You don’t have to look very far to recognize that men don’t seem to possess the same amount of vigor and purpose they once did. Take one sobering statistic—the rate of suicide in men—and you begin to see how damaging the effects of the voluntary subjugation of men to their families, their businesses, and their governments can be. Equally, Tombs, like all Brexiters, expresses his contempt for the second referendum on the Lisbon treaty held in Ireland in 2009 after the first one was defeated. He claims that the first vote was “overruled”. It wasn’t. A democratically elected Irish government negotiated changes and a free electorate endorsed the treaty by a two-to-one majority. In doing so, Tombs claimed, the Irish had “given up their sovereignty”. Apparently, a referendum is a sovereign act only when the result is one of which Tombs approves. Chapter 12: Narratives on Indigenous Victimhood: challenges of Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Colombia’s transitional setting, Gustavo Rojas- Páez and Colleen Alena O’Brien It’s not hard to understand why we give up control to others —it’s easy and we’re expected to. The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men is a call for men to once again rise up and establish themselves as they once were—a revolution if you will.

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The first part of the 20 th century is usually regarded as the time of conception of modern international law and of the so-called law of international cooperation ( Co-operation, International Law of). The League of Nations was created in 1919 and new fields fell into the material scope of international law. First attempts to secure the prohibition of the use of force and to consolidate duties of peaceful dispute settlement were made, albeit not always successfully.The second part of the 20 th century corresponded to the establishment of modern international law and of the new conception of international law qua law of cooperation between sovereign States. The fact that he went through his own "valley of the shadow of death", only to pull out of it and renew his vigor to re-conquer his own world, spoke DEEPLY to me, going through my own struggle to overcome situational depression, resisting the urge to cynically dismiss hope as naive. Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tiipa, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupōuri) (PhD) is Professor of Demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, Aotearoa New Zealand. She co-edited Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda and is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.

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The biggest contradiction of all is that, on the one hand, he argues that the future lies with the nation state and the sense of rootedness in place that makes democratic engagement possible. Fair enough – except that, on the other hand, he ends up suggesting that place doesn’t really matter anymore: “Geography comes before history. But for centuries we have been loosening the bonds of time and distance. Place has become less important.” If that is so, how can the old idea of pure sovereignty not need to be rethought? It rapidly became clear that public international law and sovereignty implied each other. To be fully in charge of its relations with other States in a society of equally sovereign States and to be externally sovereign, and hence in turn to be able to protect its internal sovereignty, a State needed to be submitted to public international law. However, for public international law to arise, it needed independent sovereign States to freely consent to mutual rights and obligations and to their regulation. As a result, since sovereignty implies the existence of public international law, it became self-evident that sovereignty is inherently limited. Even if, by definition, a sovereign State cannot be limited by the laws of another State, it may be limited when these laws result from the collective will of all States. Ryan’s writing style is not so intense that the reader must reread parts to understand them. However, I would say that Ryan uses a strong vocabulary and has a great way of getting his point across. He kept the content concise and pertaining to the overall theme of the book and the individual chapters. While the book is laid out in 4 parts, I see the book as Framework & foundation principles, then an actual plan you can put to work in your life called the "Battle Plan" a 12 week guide to implement specific tactics into your life and realize the visions you want for yourself. Aboriginal rights in Australia are at a crossroads. Neo-liberal governments have reasserted their claim to land in Australia, and …

Many of the issues presented in the book are framed as conflicts or battles. While this is a choice from the author, I don't feel it helps with understanding the issues and their solutions, some of which are quite simplistic. I repeat that I am not aware of any express enactment or treaty subjecting the Aborigines of this colony to the English colonial law, and I have shown that the Aborigines cannot be considered as Foreigners in a Kingdom which is their own." There is, moreover, an underlying tension in the idea of “the people” in an explicitly multinational state like the UK. Tombs gets over it (as he gets over other problems for the idea of exclusive sovereignty, like the climate crisis) by refusing to recognise it. Even his most basic term of reference is evasive. His title speaks of an “isle”, singular. In the text, this slips awkwardly into “our islands”. But by “our”, he really means England’s: all his key points of reference are English. True sovereignty also means that you have full ownership of your issues. It will be interesting to see what vocal Aboriginal activists have to say once First Nations peoples manage themselves the huge challenges they are facing today. Aboriginal definition D. Grimm and B. Cooper, Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015)

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if this colony were acquired by occupying such lands as were uncultivated and unoccupied by the natives, and within the limits of the sovereignty asserted under the commission, the aborigines would have remained unconquered and free, but dependent tribes, dependent on the colonists as their superiors for protection; their rights as a distinct people cannot, from their peculiar situation, be considered to have been tacitly surrendered. But the frequent conflicts that have occurred between the colonists and the Aborigines within the limits of the colony of New South Wales, make it, I think, sufficiently manifest that the Aboriginal tribes are neither a conquered people, nor have tacitly acquiesced in the supremacy of the settlers." It can be difficult to distinguish the two terms. 'Self-determination' is a more loose word for 'sovereignty'. Sometimes, it is used as an alternative, while other times it is used to describe a form of ‘limited sovereignty’ under the sovereign power of someone else. In international law, sovereignty is a more precise term than self-determination.It is important to emphasize, however, that the notion of external sovereignty was not entirely absent from classical authors’ considerations. The emergence of modern sovereignty went hand in hand with claims to external independence and this concern may be retrieved, for instance, in Machiavelli, Bodin, or Hobbes’ writings. The question of the degree of power and amount of competence necessary for an entity to become or remain sovereign has given rise to a long controversy in the history of the concept. Which principles support Aboriginal self-determination? You'll be surprised what's beyond the obvious. By contrast, numerous variations of the principle and so-called ‘correlated’ principles of sovereignty, as opposed to the principle of sovereignty itself, can be found in conventional international law. This is the case in particular of Art. 2 (1) UN Charter for the principle of sovereign equality, but also in the Friendly Relations Declaration (1970) for the detailed rights that follow from that principle of sovereign equality. The UN Charter also protects sovereign States’ domaine réservé and prohibits other States’ intervention on sovereign States’ territory (Arts 2 (4) and (7) UN Charter). Further correlated principles to the principle of sovereign equality may be found in general principles of international law and customary international law, and have been progressively recognized in in