Harry Hobbs, George Williams

Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"On a rainy and gloomy 2 September 1967, Roy Bates, a WWII veteran and former Major in the British Army, declared himself the ruler of the new Principality of Sealand. Like many political entities seeking statehood, several challenges immediately confronted the apparent nation. The difficulties facing Sealand appeared particularly grave. To begin with, the entirety of the Principality's territorial claim consisted of a 4,100-tonne de-commissioned artificial naval installation located off the coast of Essex in the River Thames estuary. Initially built in 1942 to guard the United Kingdom (UK) port of Harwich from invasion, the until recently abandoned naval fort possessed no arable land. In fact, it possessed very little habitable land at all. The purportedly independent state resembled an abandoned oil rig in being comprised of a 51-by-27-metre pontoon supported by two 18-metre hollow reinforced concrete towers of around 7.3 metres in diameter"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781009150125
• ISBN-10: 100915012X
• Artikelnr.: 62542866

Autorenporträt

Harry Hobbs is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law. Dr Hobbs' recent scholarship has explored ideas of sovereignty through the lens of Indigenous peoples' rights, and he is co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prince Leonard prepares for war
2. Statehood and micronations
3. Motivations
4. Performing sovereignty
5. State responses
6. The future of micronationalism
Appendix: List of micronations discussed.