By establishing that sovereignty is a socially constructed institution that varies according to time and place, with multiple meanings and changing practices, The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics illuminates the complexity of the relationship between sovereignty and environmental matters and casts both in a new light.
Over and over again, I've watched them construct institutions designed to translate the mystical into the practical: parliaments, presidencies, court systems.
It's surrounded by great social scientists who are asking hard questions about how it affects policy, how it affects behavior, how we construct institutions.
An alliance of firm and state constructed new institutions for citizen participation in local governance, promoted from within them the idea that mining was complementary with development, and backed up this discourse with tangible results.
The detailed translation more sensitively expresses Laozi's point in using the metaphor in the context of a view of names as "cutting" things into types and Laozi's distinctive theory that such socially constructed distinctions (institutions) control us by controlling our desires.
Where Athens, Rome and subsequent European empires constructed their institutions to prevent class antagonism from devolving into class war, the United States built a legal system that required broad economic equality to function.
The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidly expanding number of victims.
He has refused to involve his organization with the American attempt to construct democratic institutions, calling them a ruse intended to place the country under permanent American control.
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States led the international effort to construct global institutions to promote peace and prosperity.
The basic idea of The Social Contract is to construct political institutions that allow the rule of compassion to provide the basis for legislation.
