Shifting Sovereignties
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This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
#POLI2049 Relevant to both last week's discussion of international orders and this week's discussion of whether the origins of IR have built Euro-centric assumptions into the discipline. (Also interesting for #POLI1017)
Shifting Sovereignties@shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 2w agoNew article by Nargis Nurulla-Khoja on "De-Westphalizing Central Asia: from Soviet biopolitics to a Silk Road mentality" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article by Dastan Kweka on "Tanzania as an interventionist state: from a ‘willing’ to a ‘reluctant’ intervener" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New article by John Agbonifo titled "Beyond Indirect Rule: Punitive Pacification and the Administrative Reconstitution of Benin, 1897–1935" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New article by Nargis Nurulla-Khoja on "De-Westphalizing Central Asia: from Soviet biopolitics to a Silk Road mentality" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
De-Westphalizing Central Asia: from Soviet biopolitics to a Silk Road mentality
This essay undertakes a project of “de-Westphalization” in the study of Central Asia, challenging the persistence of the Westphalian state model as a colonial legacy. It diagnoses this legacy by an...
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🎓 Congratulations to Tereza Placková for finishing her PhD thesis on "Inhabiting the In-Between: International Law and Histories of Sovereignty in Central Europe" portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...
Inhabiting the In-Between: International Law and Histories of Sovereignty in Central Europe
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New article by Andre Santos Campos on "Decoupling Generational Sovereignty: The Cross-Temporal Role of the Sovereign People" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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New article by César Niño & Jerónimo Ríos on "Geopolitics and overlapping criminal sovereignty: the case of Tren de Aragua in Colombia" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Geopolitics and overlapping criminal sovereignty: the case of Tren de Aragua in Colombia - Trends in Organized Crime
This article examines the transnational expansion of Tren de Aragua in Colombia and develops the concept of “overlapping criminal sovereignty” to account for configurations in which criminal authority...
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There are few people who can write with the same expertise on the Versailles negotiations after World War I and about digital sovereignty. Scott is one of them.
International Affairs@iajournal.bsky.social · 4w agoWhere does India stand on data sovereignty & digital industrial policy while resisting technology alliance with either the US or China? asks Scott L. Malcomson. Read about ‘digital non-alignment’ in his #openaccess article: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag084
New article by Salvador Santino Regilme on "The Hague as Archive: Duterte’s War on Drugs, Instrumental Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Global Impunity" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Hague as Archive: Duterte’s War on Drugs, Instrumental Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Global Impunity - Law and Critique
The March 2025 detention of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte under an ICC arrest warrant marks an unprecedented legal rupture, yet its significance extends far beyond individual prosecution...
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New article by Junhyeong Ahn & Hanbyeol Sohn on "The politics of interpretation in the DMZ: reconciling UNC authority and ROK sovereignty under the armistice regime" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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📘 New book by Andrew Davenport titled "Capital and the International: On the Dialectic of Value and Sovereignty" bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/boo...
BOOK REVIEW: J.J.SHEEHAN, Shifting sovereignties: a global history of a concept in practice by M.Mihatsch, M.Mulligan Berlin-Boston: W. de Gruyter, 2025; Sovereignty: European and global histories 1400-1800 by C.Zwierlein, D.Lee, Leiden-Boston Brill, 2025, Comparative Legal History, XIV 2026, nr. 1
BOOK REVIEW: James J. SHEEHAN, Shifting sovereignties: a global history of a concept in practice, by Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan [Berlin and Boston: Walther de Gruyter, 2025]; Sovereignty: Eu...
(image source: Taylor&Francis ) On June 28, 2004, during a meeting of the NATO alliance in Istanbul, National Security Advisor Condoleezza R...
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New article by Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Omar Arabow Addan, Hibo Ilyas Ahmed, Faduma Jama Hussein, et al titled "Negotiating sovereignty in the Horn of Africa: how states balance national interests and regional integration" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Negotiating sovereignty in the Horn of Africa: how states balance national interests and regional integration
This study examines expert interpretations of how states in the Horn of Africa negotiate sovereignty while participating in regional integration frameworks. The apparent contest between sovereignty...
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New article by by José Andrés-Gallego on the Origins of the Concept of “National Sovereignty”: The Role of the Word “Nation” www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/6/...
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New article in @iajournal.bsky.social by Scott Malcomson titled "On digital non-alignment" picks up on our notion of a sovereignty regime to discuss digital sovereignty regimes. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
On digital non-alignment
How can states pursue digital prosperity without deepening digital vulnerability? Using India as its case-study, this article develops digital non-alignmen
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New book: City, Frontier and Empire: A Spatial History of British Assam, 1826-1946 by Evy Mehzabeen #urbanhistory #southasia #borderlands
Interesting new special issue asking "What was the Cold War?" edited by Silvia Pedraza www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What was the Cold War?
What was the Cold War?, an article collection from Social Science History
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📘 New book by Alexander Wendt titled "The Last Humans: UFOs, Global Security, and the Threat to State Sovereignty" global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Westphalia didn't do what many pol sci scholars think it did, but we still like a good Westphalia pun... New article by Saroj Kumar Aryal & Manish Jung Pulami on "From Westphalia to Webphalia: reimagining small states in the digital sovereignty order" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
From Westphalia to Webphalia: reimagining small states in the digital sovereignty order - Journal of International Relations and Development
This article re-examines sovereignty and international order in the digital age by theorizing a shift from territorial to infrastructural modalities of power. Rather than considering the present order...
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📕 New book by M. X. Mitchell titled "Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
New article by Francesco Tamburini titled "Freezing colonial borders: Uti possidetis and the Agacher dispute in postcolonial Africa" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Freezing colonial borders: Uti possidetis and the Agacher dispute in postcolonial Africa - Francesco Tamburini, 2026
This article revisits the Agacher Strip dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso to illuminate the enduring modernity of colonial borders in Africa. By analyzing t...
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Never heard of the journal but the article looks interesting. "State Sovereignty and the Enforcement of Trade Unions’ Rights in Cameroon: An Appraisal" by Akamin Asonga Patrick and Assine Cyrille ideas.repec.org/a/bdz/stlaju...
State Sovereignty and the Enforcement of Trade Unions’ Right
This paper examines the tension between state sovereignty and the enforcement of trade union rights in Cameroon; in doing this, it situates the genealogy of the international protection of trade union
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Michael S. Nassaney and Sergio Escribano-Ruiz' new edited volume "The Archaeology of Colonial Fortifications" has a chapter by Charles R. Cobb on "Colonial Forts and Partible Sovereignty" floridapress.org/978081307968...
The Archaeology of Colonial Fortifications
A global exploration of the many ways forts served as instruments of conquest and spaces of cultural exchangeEuropean colonial fortifications were built to a...
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New article by Aidana Paizova, Karlygash Mukhtarova & Yermek Chukubayev titled "Between Moscow and sovereignty: comparative analysis of Central Asian leaders’ discursive positioning toward Russian foreign policy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Between Moscow and sovereignty: comparative analysis of Central Asian leaders’ discursive positioning toward Russian foreign policy
Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine revealed strikingly divergent discursive strategies amongst Central Asian states, challenging assumptions of regional uniformity. This study analyses offi...
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New intervention by Chelsea Watego, Kevin Yow Yeh, Jamal Nabulsi, David Singh, Alissa Macoun & Elizabeth Strakosch titled "Scaring the shit out of the colony: Sovereignty, solidarity, survival … and spite" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Scaring the shit out of the colony: Sovereignty, solidarity, survival … and spite
In this article, we argue for the power of spite in building a Black-Palestinian antiracist collective driven by Indigenous sovereignty. Reflecting on key moments in our work together in Magandjin/...
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New article by Mourad Haji on "Ḥākimiyya as a philosophy of history: Divine sovereignty and the marginalization of human agency" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ḥākimiyya as a philosophy of history: Divine sovereignty and the marginalization of human agency - Mourad Haji, 2026
This research investigates the hypothesis that the concept of ḥākimiyya (“sovereignty”) offers a distinct interpretation of human history, framing it as subject...
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John Iliffe was a giant in the field of African history taking African agency seriously, rather than just writing about the history of white men in Africa. May his books be read and re-read for many years to come!
New handbook chapter by Jarosław Kuisz on "Post-traumatic sovereignty: The case of Poland" in The @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of the History of Poland www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Post-traumatic sovereignty | 40 | The case of Poland | Jarosław Kuisz
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the concept of sovereignty has returned to the limelight. In recent years, and not only in European countries, one
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New article by Pierre Abou Jaoude on "Uneven and combined development and the Lebanese state: sectarian governance, political economy, and fragmented sovereignty" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Uneven and combined development and the Lebanese state: sectarian governance, political economy, and fragmented sovereignty
Lebanon is frequently portrayed as a dysfunctional political system characterised by sectarian division, corruption, economic crisis, and institutional paralysis. While these descriptions capture i...
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