{"id":5080,"date":"2012-01-06T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2012-01-06T04:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T04:56:25","slug":"elkus-on-the-sovereignty-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5080","title":{"rendered":"Elkus on The Sovereignty Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried at work this week, but I wanted to take a moment to point to a review \u00a0by amigo <strong>Adam Elkus<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newpacificinstitute.org\/jsw\/?p=9666\" target=\"_blank\">Japan\u00a0Security Watch<\/a><\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sovereignty-Solution-Common-Approach-Security\/dp\/1612510507\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Th<\/strong><strong>e Sovereignty Solution<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by<strong> Anna Simons<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newpacificinstitute.org\/jsw\/?p=9666\" target=\"_blank\">Sovereignty and National Defense<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8230;.their new book<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sovereignty-Solution-Common-Approach-Security\/dp\/1612510507\">\u00a0<em>The Sovereignty Solution<\/em><\/a>, Naval Postgraduate Institute (NPS) scholar Anna Simons and her co-authors develop an approach to global security rooted around an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.nps.edu\/asimons\/docs\/the_sovereignty_solution.pdf\">odd idea<\/a>: every state should have the right to order itself internally under its own preferences and in turn bares responsibility for all acts of aggression that transgress the sovereignty of others. This implies tolerance for a range of governmental types, an end to expeditionary state-building (direct and indirect), and an approach to warfare built on breaking states that misbehave with conventional capabilities rather than a \u201cwhole of government\u201d approach. While a national defense policy built around such ideas may or may not be sensible, it certainly is at variance with many cherished ideas in American and Western national security policy. To name a few, the strong and weak versions of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibilitytoprotect.org\/\">Responsibility to Protect<\/a>\u00a0and the commonly held philosophy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/westphalianpost.wordpress.com\/universalism-index\/geography-strategy-and-national-interest-the-maps-are-too-small\/\">that all foreign events are interconnected\u00a0<\/a>and thus of American concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simons\u2019 book, to a large extent, unintentionally describes the way that many non-Anglo Pacific governments view sovereignty and its relationship to national defense. As Amitai Etzioni noted, there is a kind of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/icps.gwu.edu\/2011\/10\/28\/is-china-more-westphalian-than-the-west\/\">back to the future<\/a>\u201d quality about China\u2019s prioritization of sovereignty above all else. As the West\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/09\/intervention-libya-and-the-future-of-sovereignty\/244537\/\">moves away<\/a>\u00a0from the idea of sovereignty towards a post-Westphalian future, China has moved from a Maoist policy of sponsoring insurgencies in neighboring states to championing the idea that states should be the only legitimate force of national power within their own borders. China\u2019s views, however, are representative of a common national security philosophy in Asia&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/asia-security-watch-sovereignty-and-national-defense\" target=\"_blank\">SWJ Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried at work this week, but I wanted to take a moment to point to a review \u00a0by amigo Adam Elkus at Japan\u00a0Security Watch of The Sovereignty Solution\u00a0by Anna Simons: Sovereignty and National Defense\u00a0 &#8230;.their new book\u00a0The Sovereignty Solution, Naval Postgraduate Institute (NPS) scholar Anna Simons and her co-authors develop an approach to global security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[516,216,46,101,133,87,270,668,131,558,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ae","category-academia","category-analytic","category-asia","category-book","category-foreign-policy","category-national-security","category-r2p","category-security","category-social-science","category-swj-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}