Shifting Sovereignties
@shiftingsovs.bsky.social
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.
We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
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Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
🎓 Congrats to Koffi Possone Yao-Kouame for completing their PhD dissertation on "Stabilization Without Sovereignty: Aid, Institutions, and the Political Economy of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa"
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November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎓 Congrats to Koffi Possone Yao-Kouame for completing their PhD dissertation on "Stabilization Without Sovereignty: Aid, Institutions, and the Political Economy of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa"
www.proquest.com/openview/598...
www.proquest.com/openview/598...
Václav Horčička on "The United States and Austria-Hungary at the End of 1916 and the Beginning of 1917: Lesser-known ‘Internal Political’ Aspects of the Bilateral Relations"
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Václav Horčička on "The United States and Austria-Hungary at the End of 1916 and the Beginning of 1917: Lesser-known ‘Internal Political’ Aspects of the Bilateral Relations"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New article on indegenous sovereignty in Louisiana by Jonas Musco, Elizabeth Ellis & Ryan Spring: "Sovereignty, Nations, and Diplomacy: the French and Native American Alliances in Louisiana"
journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/9785
journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/9785
Sovereignty, Nations, and Diplomacy: the French and Native American...
Introduction Treaty law is at the center of many of the ongoing disputes between colonial powers and Native nations. These conflicts over the scope and nature of Indigenous rights and sovereignty h...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
New article on indegenous sovereignty in Louisiana by Jonas Musco, Elizabeth Ellis & Ryan Spring: "Sovereignty, Nations, and Diplomacy: the French and Native American Alliances in Louisiana"
journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/9785
journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/9785
New article by @andrewkonove.bsky.social titled "An Art So Diabolical, and So Ruinous to the Nation: Counterfeiting, Sovereignty, and US-Mexican Relations in the 1830s"
doi.org/10.1353/eam....
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Project MUSE - "An Art So Diabolical, and So Ruinous to the Nation": Counterfeiting, Sovereignty, and US-Mexican Relations in the 1830s
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November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
New article by @andrewkonove.bsky.social titled "An Art So Diabolical, and So Ruinous to the Nation: Counterfeiting, Sovereignty, and US-Mexican Relations in the 1830s"
doi.org/10.1353/eam....
doi.org/10.1353/eam....
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
Many thanks to @benjaminfogel.bsky.social for quoting Shifting Sovereignties in his interesting article on the Trump administration's recent actions in the Caribbean.
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A Lawless Trump Administration Runs Amok in the Caribbean
As great powers abandon even the pretense of law, the undeclared war on Venezuela exposes a world ruled by extortion, collapse, and the redefinition of sovereignty.
jacobin.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Many thanks to @benjaminfogel.bsky.social for quoting Shifting Sovereignties in his interesting article on the Trump administration's recent actions in the Caribbean.
jacobin.com/2025/10/vene...
jacobin.com/2025/10/vene...
You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I have started a new job in Wenzhou. I am looking forward to learning a lot about China at a moment in time which is pivotal for China and in which China is pivotal for the world.
The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.
The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.
Check out this review of Shifting Sovereignties in Italian:
www.albengacorsara.it/2025/09/06/i...
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Idee e letture. Sovranità in evoluzione: una storia globale del potere
Sovranità: concetto fluido, globale e storico, tra legittimità, potere e sfide tra stato, impero e governance globale. (Moritz Mihatsch e Michael Mulligan, 2025)
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September 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Check out this review of Shifting Sovereignties in Italian:
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📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.
July 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.
📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025.
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🎓 For a psychoanalytical perspective on sovereignty, check out this chapter by Julie Macken on "the aftermath of Australia’s October 2023 referendum, where a majority voted against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution."
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A Sickened Sovereignty
This work explores the aftermath of Australia’s October 2023 referendum, where a majority voted against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution. The rejection highlighte...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🎓 For a psychoanalytical perspective on sovereignty, check out this chapter by Julie Macken on "the aftermath of Australia’s October 2023 referendum, where a majority voted against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution."
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
📕🎬 Apropos summer readings... if you are interested in sovereignty in the Wheel of Time novels / Amazon tv series, check out this article by Jeremy Christensen and Eric Holmes:
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
a woman in a red dress with the words " the madness already has him " behind her
ALT: a woman in a red dress with the words " the madness already has him " behind her
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July 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
📕🎬 Apropos summer readings... if you are interested in sovereignty in the Wheel of Time novels / Amazon tv series, check out this article by Jeremy Christensen and Eric Holmes:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🎓 new article by Mauricio Rogat on "‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty"
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July 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🎓 new article by Mauricio Rogat on "‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📕 New book by Weronika Suchacka & Bartosz Wójcik: "Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys"
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Un/Framing Topographies
The volume is a collection of essays by acclaimed and widely published international scholars of 'space' working within different disciplines, such as social sciences, history, applied sciences and me...
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July 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📕 New book by Weronika Suchacka & Bartosz Wójcik: "Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys"
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
🎓 New article by Louis Stockwell on "Contesting regional sovereignty from below: the unsettling effect of unilateral independence and autonomy referendums"
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July 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🎓 New article by Louis Stockwell on "Contesting regional sovereignty from below: the unsettling effect of unilateral independence and autonomy referendums"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎓 New article by Marc Hertzman on "The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality"
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The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality - Volume 67 Issue 3
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July 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🎓 New article by Marc Hertzman on "The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality"
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🎓 New article by Seçil Dağtaș & Suzan Ilcan on "Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus"
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Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus
Cyprus’ 2004 accession to the European Union (EU) transformed the significance of the ‘Green Line’ – the United Nations (UN)-monitored buffer zone that has separated Turkish and Greek Cypriots sinc...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🎓 New article by Seçil Dağtaș & Suzan Ilcan on "Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus"
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🎓 New article by Vikash Singh on "Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity"
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Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity - Vikash Singh, 2025
This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the performance of a politics of exception in a democratic polity. In conversatio...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🎓 New article by Vikash Singh on "Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
🎓 New article by Ana Lucia Araujo on "Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade"
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Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core
Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade - Volume 66
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July 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🎓 New article by Ana Lucia Araujo on "Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade"
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🎓 new article by Patrick Fournier and André Blais on "Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?"
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Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What? | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core
Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?
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July 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🎓 new article by Patrick Fournier and André Blais on "Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📕 new book by Christopher Adair-Toteff discussing "Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception"
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Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception
This book illuminates Carl Schmitt’s role in theorising the ‘state of exception’ as he engaged with questions of German federalism.
link.springer.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📕 new book by Christopher Adair-Toteff discussing "Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception"
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🎓 New LLM dissertation by Cynthia Mariyam John looking making the case for a Collective Management Organization for Intellectual Property and Cultural Sovereignty in the Arab Region
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July 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🎓 New LLM dissertation by Cynthia Mariyam John looking making the case for a Collective Management Organization for Intellectual Property and Cultural Sovereignty in the Arab Region
www.proquest.com/openview/1c9...
www.proquest.com/openview/1c9...