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Whose International Law? Sovereignty and Non-State Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Benedict Kingsbury*
Affiliation:
Duke University School of Law

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Theoretical Perspectives on the Transformation of Sovereignty
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994 

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2 There are major exceptions, including the work represented by the various contributions to Double Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining And Domestic Politics, Peter B. Evans Et Al. Eds., (1993), many of which were influenced by Putnam, Robert B., Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games , 42 INT’L ORG. 427 (1988)Google Scholar .

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10 The boundaries of the category were again debated in the corridors of the 1993 UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, prompted partly by the attendance for the first time of the members of the Reheboth Baster community, an Afrikaans-speaking group of whites whose forebears moved to an area near Windhoek in the 1870s, prior to proclamation of the German colony, and now describe themselves as an indigenous people threatened by policies of the Namibian Government.

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19 Supra note 6, at 226

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