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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.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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....
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎓 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...
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Inhabiting the In-Between: International Law and Histories of Sovereignty in Central Europe
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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.
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📘 New book by Andrew Davenport titled "Capital and the International: On the Dialectic of Value and Sovereignty" bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/boo...
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Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History @esclh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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....
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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...
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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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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New book: City, Frontier and Empire: A Spatial History of British Assam, 1826-1946 by Evy Mehzabeen #urbanhistory #southasia #borderlands
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Interesting new special issue asking "What was the Cold War?" edited by Silvia Pedraza www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What was the Cold War?
What was the Cold War?, an article collection from Social Science History
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
📘 New book by Alexander Wendt titled "The Last Humans: UFOs, Global Security, and the Threat to State Sovereignty" global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📕 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...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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....
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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...
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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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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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!
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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...
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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....
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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New article by Aline Bartenstein on "European sovereignty: narratives in times of crisis" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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European sovereignty: narratives in times of crisis
European sovereignty has become one of the most politically charged and conceptually contested ideas in the European Union (EU). Previously absent from the EU’s vocabulary, this has now become a ce...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New article by Arash Beidollahkhani on "Extractive legitimacy under non-recognition: mining and sovereignty under the second Taliban rule in Afghanistan since 2021" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Extractive legitimacy under non-recognition: mining and sovereignty under the second Taliban rule in Afghanistan since 2021
Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban have placed mineral development at the centre of their economic and diplomatic agenda, presenting mining contracts, especially those with Chinese firms...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New article by Giuseppe Marino on "Korean Captives and Iberian Brokers in East Asia: Coerced Mobility and the Limits of Sovereignty, 1592–1598" brill.com/view/journal...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New article by Tran Quoc Hun on "Artificial Intelligence and the Reconceptualization of Digital Sovereignty: A Political–Philosophical Analysis" www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/11...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Some of you might find this useful. A short lit review on food sovereignty in European countries by Florine Pagès, Sophie Drogué and Viola Lamani hal.inrae.fr/hal-05716494...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New chapter by Gabriela Bortz, María Cecilia Sanmartin & Elize Massard da Fonseca on "Peripheral vaccine promises in Latin America: Expectations, coalitions, and sovereignty" www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New blog post by the "INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat" research project of Copenhagen University titled "Peace or sovereignty? The Sino-Japanese dispute and the League of Nations’ Covenant" saxo.ku.dk/innerleague/...
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Peace or sovereignty? The Sino-Japanese dispute and the League of Nations’ Covenant
Blog post by intern Cecilie Rinder Myrup.
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Kamal Singh Kunwar on "Beyond the State: Fragmented Sovereignty and Informal Governance in Post-Conflict Nepal" criticaljournalofsocialsciences.com/index.php/CJ...
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Critical Journal of Social Sciences – Open Access Research
Advancing critical inquiry in the social sciences. Accepts manuscripts in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Calvin Jordan on "A Laboratory of Sovereignty: An Examination of the 1911 International Plague Conference in Mukden, China" accesson.kr/jnah/v.22/2/...
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A Laboratory of Sovereignty: An Examination of the 1911 International Plague Conference in Mukden, China
The International Plague Conference at Mukden marked the close of the pneumon- ic plague crisis that devastated Manchuria and alarmed the international communi- ty in 1911. Reflecting on efforts to st...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Abdul Kadir Khan on "A sovereignty-bound Catch-22 in refugee governance: The Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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A sovereignty-bound Catch-22 in refugee governance: The Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh - Abdul Kadir Khan, 2026
Since August 2017, Bangladesh has hosted over one million Rohingya refugees fleeing mass violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Using the Rohingya crisis as ...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Alicia Noëllie Saes-Louarn on "Guardians of sovereignty: the role of technocratic nationalism in expertise-driven governance. A cross-sectoral analysis" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Guardians of sovereignty: the role of technocratic nationalism in expertise-driven governance. A cross-sectoral analysis
While much research on governance examines how bureaucratic discretion is exercised, this article investigates how civil servants construct legitimacy when justifying their discretion in applying E...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Sarandha Jain on "Peopled Infrastructure and Outlaw Sovereignty: Cooking Gas Takes to a Life of Crime" muse.jhu.edu/article/995787
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Tim Rowse on "Historicising Indigenous Political Thought: The Location of Sovereignty" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Historicising Indigenous Political Thought: The Location of Sovereignty
Writing about Indigenous sovereignty says much about how settler colonial governance affects Indigenous sovereignty practices, but less about the relationships among Indigenous Australians themselv...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New book by Jim Ocitti on "Mediated Political Realities in Uganda: Media, Politics, and Democratic Contestation in a Postcolonial State" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Mediated Political Realities in Uganda
This study examines the intersection of media, politics, tracing historical trajectories from colonial print cultures to contemporary digital activism.
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Jingduo Hu on "Conditioned Absolutism: Sovereignty, Association, and the Limits of Political Authority" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Conditioned Absolutism: Sovereignty, Association, and the Limits of Political Authority - Liverpool Law Review
This paper examines how political authority can reconcile the demands of sovereign unity with the normative significance of social associations. Existing accounts of sovereignty often face a dilemma: ...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Jill M. Fraley titled "Feudal Is Fine Because Property Is Sovereignty: Rational Basis Equal Protection and the New Noncitizen Land Laws" scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article: Jessa Rogers on "Rematriating Wiradjuri Sovereignty in Research: Re-visiting the Colonial Archive" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rematriating Wiradjuri Sovereignty in Research: Re-visiting the Colonial Archive
This article advances a Wiradjuri sovereignty argument framed through Bennett and Moreton’s rematriation: a ‘process of using Indigenous spiritual processes to recover ourselves from the text, the ...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New article by Marco Zoppi titled "A ‘Socialist’ Eurafrica? The Socialist Group’s Debates at the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, 1955–1963" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A ‘Socialist’ Eurafrica? The Socialist Group’s Debates at the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, 1955–1963
The concept of ‘Eurafrica’ has attracted sustained scholarly attention as a lens through which to examine post-1945 relations between Europe and Africa. This article examines the archives of the So...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New article by Kamal Soleimani & Davoud Osmanzadeh on "Ethno-Theocratic Sovereignty and Antisemitism in Iran" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Ethno-Theocratic Sovereignty and Antisemitism in Iran - Society
How do modern states that claim universal citizenship continue to produce unequal forms of political belonging? This article addresses this question through the case of antisemitism in Iran. It argues...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New article by Connor O’Brien on "Good Governance as Responsible Sovereignty: Francis Deng and the Conflict–Development Nexus" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New book by Samuel Mace on "Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Carl Schmitt in the Middle East
This book presents a critical examination of Carl Schmitt's political framework, particularly in the context of decisionist regimes in the Middle East
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New article by Pamela Palmater on "Mi’kmaw Oral History as Law: Narrative Authority and Indigenous Legal Sovereignty" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Mi’kmaw Oral History as Law: Narrative Authority and Indigenous Legal Sovereignty
In this article, I examine Mi’kmaw oral histories as living sources of law that ground Mi’kmaw sovereignty, governance, and collective memory. Within Mi’kmaw legal traditions, stories are not simpl...
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