KRISTY BELTON
University of Connecticut
»Westphalian (Dis)Order: Postnational Theses and Developing World Realities«
ABSTRACT
While some postulate that the state is undergoing a crisis in sovereignty or that formal citizenship has become irrelevant or obsolete, this dissertation argues that we are not witnessing the last act of the sovereign state or the demise of citizenship. Through an analysis of state control over citizenship, statelessness and migration, the dissertation challenges two prominent claims: 1) that the state’s authority has weakened to such an extent that global politics is now managed primarily through varying forms of global governance, and 2) that citizenship is no longer needed for rights enjoyment or protection since human rights have been decoupled from citizenship.
BIOGRAPHY
Kristy Belton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. She holds a M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Central Florida. She graduated summa cum laude from Barry University’s honors program with a B.A. in Spanish and minor in French. She is the former Managing Editor of the International Studies Review and the recipient of the University of Connecticut Outstanding Scholars Program fellowship, among other awards. Kristy’s research interests include citizenship, statelessness, migration, human rights, the politics of belonging, and post-Westphalian global orders.
PUBLICATIONS
Kristy Belton (2011): The Neglected Non-Citizen: statelessness and liberal political theory. Journal of Global Ethics, 7.1: 57-69.
Kristy Belton (2011): Dry Land Drowning or Rip Current Survival? Haitians without Status in the Bahamas. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34.6: 948-966.
Kristy Belton (2010): Arendt’s Children in The Bahamian Context: the children of migrants without status. International Journal of Bahamian Studies, 16: 35-50.
Kristy Belton (2010): From Cyberspace to Offline Communities: Indigenous Peoples and Global Connectivity. Alternatives: Global, local, political, 35.3: 193-215.
Kristy Belton, Waltraud Q. Morales (2009): The Multi-Faceted Debate on Human Migration. The Latin Americanist, 53.1: 187-210.
Kristy Belton, Waltraud Q. Morales (2008): Contesting Democracy and Citizenship: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives.” The Latin Americanist, 52.1: 95-113.