Multilevel Citizenship

Citizenship has come to mean legal and political equality within a sovereign nation-state; in international law, only states may determine who is and who is not a citizen. But such unitary status is the historical exception: before sovereign nation-states became the prevailing form of political organization, citizenship had a range of definitions and applications. Today, nonstate communities and jurisdictions both below and above the state level...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245156
• ISBN13: 9780812245158
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"