This book explores the concept of sovereignty in the post-modern world and its interrelationship to problems and issues facing the Third World. Specifically it examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of sovereignty in the current era, such as its changing dimensions and possible disintegration. These issues are placed into a real-world context by examining their relationships to political and economic development in the Third World.

Acknowledgements - Perspectives on Third World Sovereignty: Problems With(out) Borders; M.E.Denham & M.O.Lombardi - Space/Time/Sovereignty; R.B.J.Walker - State Sovereignty, the Politics of Identity and the Place of the Political; D.S.Stern - Moral Geographies and the Ethics of Post-Sovereignty; M.J.Shapiro - Community, Recognition, and Normative Sovereignty: Reaching Beyond the Boundaries of States; C.V.Blatz - The Third World and a Problem with Borders; D.L.Blaney & N.Inayatullah - Conditionalities Without End: Hegemony, Neo-Liberalism and the Demise of Sovereignty in the South; T.M.Shaw - The Nexus of Sovereignty and Regionalism in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa; L.A.Swatuk - The Decline of Sovereignty?; K.Slawner Third-World Problem-Solving and the 'Religion' of Sovereignty: Trends and Prospects; M.O.Lombardi - Sources - Index