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Krasner's view of sovereignty discussed in LA Times op-ed on myth of a sovereign Iraq
in the news: Los Angeles Times on June 23, 2004A Los Angeles Times op-ed which asserts that the U.S. is neither willing nor able to fulfill its promise of "full sovereignty" to Iraq, cites CDDRL director Stephen Krasner's view of sovereignty: that the notion of fully independent political authority is "hypocrisy" because nations so often interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. The opinion piece -- which says the Bush administration should "openly acknowledge that sovereignty only exists in varying degrees and that in Iraq it must be granted gradually" -- refers to Krasner's book Sovereignty as "the definitive book on the subject." 
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