This Foreword article aims to rescue the sovereignty concept from the conflicted center of irresoluble debates about the resilience and value of the state form. The idea of a “sovereignty surplus” shifts the focus of inquiry towards sovereignty as a deep frame of legal and political thought and action. It evokes how sovereigntist thinking, in tandem with the techniques of modern constitutionalism, spills over beyond its threshold modern achievement of imagining and securing the paramount authority of the state system. The sovereignty surplus manifests itself in part as a “surfeit” of sovereignty—an overabundance of new sovereignty claims emerging in new sub-state and supra-state contexts—but it also captures sovereignty’s augmented reworking in existing contexts. The sovereignty frame, then, while resilient in its general form and settled in its statist locus, is capable of and susceptible to adjustment and redeployment in the face of new internal and external pressures. It harbors an excess that allows its component elements to be fleshed out, modified, and diversified so as both to absorb and reshape shifting sources and assertions of political authority. These movements are captured by examining the contemporary interaction amongst the five “R”s: the recomposition, raising, rationing, reinforcement, and reduction of sovereignty.

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主权盈余

这篇前言文章旨在将主权概念从关于国家形式的弹性和价值的无法解决的争论的冲突中心中拯救出来。“主权盈余”的概念将调查的重点转向主权，将其作为法律和政治思想和行​​动的深层框架。它唤起了主权主义思想如何与现代宪政技术相结合，超越其想象和确保国家体系至高无上权威的现代成就。主权盈余部分表现为主权的“过剩”——在新的次国家和超国家背景下出现过多的新主权主张——但它也捕捉到主权在现有背景下的增强改造。那么主权框架，虽然在其一般形式上具有弹性并在其国家主义所在地安定下来，但在面对新的内部和外部压力时，它能够并且容易进行调整和重新部署。它蕴藏着过剩，使得其组成要素得以充实、修改和多样化，以便吸收和重塑不断变化的政治权威的来源和主张。这些运动是通过检查五个“R”之间的当代互动来捕捉的：重组、提高、配给、加强和减少主权。和多样化，以便吸收和重塑不断变化的政治权威来源和主张。这些运动是通过检查五个“R”之间的当代互动来捕捉的：重组、提高、配给、加强和减少主权。和多样化，以便吸收和重塑不断变化的政治权威来源和主张。这些运动是通过检查五个“R”之间的当代互动来捕捉的：重组、提高、配给、加强和减少主权。