Rethinking the Ontology of Statehood

Abstract

This panel interrogates the state as an ontological construct, examining how assumptions about state sovereignty, territoriality, and authority structure political inquiry. Papers might explore how the state-centric paradigm limits our understanding of non-state political forms, how statehood is ontologically produced and maintained, or how challenges to state sovereignty reveal its contingent foundations.

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The Ontology of Fictional Sovereignty: Libertine Materialism and Political Order	View Paper Details
Constitutional Identity and the Ontological Reproduction of Statehood in the European Union	View Paper Details
The Democratic Theory and the Challenge of Foundations	View Paper Details