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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good point. Maybe in a partial defence of Adrés-Gallego, the relation of sovereignty and territoriality (and the boundedness of the nation) is a tricky one as we discuss at various points in Shifting Sovereignties and summarise in the conclusion.

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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

📕 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 · 31/07/2026

🌞🏖️ Still need some summer reading? 🏊‍♂️📕 You can get our book with a 40% discount until August 11.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

⚽️ football meets sovereignty — a little too on the nose... and yes, don't get me started on FIFA... May the better team win tonight... wait... did I say better? I meant Belgian... May the Belgian team win tonight 🇧🇪

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New edited volume by Logan Cochrane and Alexandra Wilson titled "Resilient Statehood: Why and How Some Nations Maintained Long-Term Independence and Sovereignty" with chapters on Iran, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Thailand, Japan, Ethiopia... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New book by Tim Alan Garrison titled "Sovereignty on Trial: The Cherokee Nation and the Fight for Native Rights: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.33...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This looks fantastic. Steven Press is just such an amazing historian picking interesting themes and topics. His first book is Rogue Empires we quote in Shifting Sovereignties, then he wrote a book on German imperialism in Africa and diamonds and now this!

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey @academic.oup.com, there's something wrong with how your website talks to Bluesky...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

New OA book by Alejandra Mancilla on Antarctica — "From Sovereignty to Guardianship: Governing Antarctica, Governing the World" academic.oup.com/book/62732

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Get the translated copy of Yongle Zhang's "Shifting Boundaries: A Global History of the Monroe Doctrine" and a copy of our book, to start your "Shifting..." book collection. www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Nre book by Charles W. A. Prior "Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic" www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Shanghai at NYU Shanghai for what will possibly be the last Shifting Sovereignties booktalk for this academic year.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Many thanks to James Sheehan for his very generous review in Comparative Legal History ( @esclh.bsky.social ), where he writes: "They ... transcend the European experience on which most of the scholarly literature on sovereignty has been based."

Quote from the review by James Sheehan: "Shifting Sovereignties is ... a twenty-first century successor to FH Hinsley's still indispensable classic, Sovereignty"

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Brace yourself: the civilisation sovereignty nexus is making a comeback.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Escape the dreary Utrecht weather, and join us for a "cozy" discussion of sovereignty this evening.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New book by Stephen Onyango Ouma titled "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation" brill.com/display/titl...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I think I missed this when it came out in December. "Radical Sovereignty — Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America" by Tony Wood www.ucpress.edu/books/radica...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🇳🇱 Living in the Netherlands and interested in sovereignty? Come to the Utrecht Lectures in Political History with @mihatsch.bsky.social on 19 Feb, 5:15 PM at the University of Utrecht, organised by @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social. 🗣️💬

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Next book presentation, @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at @aiasdk.bsky.social on February 13, 9:45–11am. For details, check the post below.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

When we started working on Shifting Sovereignties, friends suggested that sovereignty would be an irrelevant issue and out-dated concept by the time the book is being published... we truly wish they had been right. 🤷‍♂️

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🇻🇪🧵 What a start into the new year. It unfortunately looks like discussions around sovereignty will be with us a little longer. There is some excellent analysis on the specific case, so we leave that to our colleagues who work specifically on US and Latin American history. 1/n

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Florence on Jan 14, 5pm at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for the first Max Weber lecture of the year.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Receiving another book review is a great way to end the year: many thanks to Bela Hubenstorf and Natalie Tongue for their excellent review in @globalhistories.bsky.social. For the full review, see here: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We wish you all a Very Happy New Year with many inspiring new books and lots of exciting research on sovereignty and its discontents. 🍾🥂🎉

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May Levia-claus bring you a lot of good books as presents. 🎅🎄🎁

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

We're excited to be on this list with all these excellent titles. There's still time to get Shifting Sovereignties as a Christmas gift for yourself or for one of your loved ones. 😇

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

📢 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.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

📚 Still looking for some light summer beach reading? 🏖️ Get Shifting Sovereignties at an unbeatable price (for only €35.97 / £32.70 / $39.59) 🏄 with the discount code DGBSUMMER25, when ordering on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website. ☀️ @dgb-history.bsky.social

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

📽️ 🎞️ Adam Curtis is doing a series on Shifty Sovereignty it seems... www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🇪🇺 Happy Europe Day! (Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

📅 💬 Join Michael Mulligan for a "Shifting Sovereignties" book talk in Bahrain at Euro University of Bahrain on Wednesday May 14, 3:30pm. The event is hybrid.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🇳🇱 📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the first book talk in the Netherlands, at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 8, 16:15, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, room 2.60. (details in the link below 👇)

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🇪🇬 What have the Americans done for the Suez Canal which would legitimise this claim on Egyptian sovereignty?

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the next book talk in Newcastle on Wednesday April 30, 4pm, room 1.04 in the Armstrong Building.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🇻🇦 As Pope Francis passes, the world looses not only a leader of one of the world's largest religious communities, but also the near-absolute ruler of one of Europe's micro-states — and the two powers of the pope are intertwined. The pope's sovereignty has changed over time and... 🧵

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

📅 🗣️ 💬 Next opportunity to hear about our book: Michael Mulligan will speak in Cairo on April 23, 6pm at the Anglican Cathedral in Zamalek.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

🎁 📘 Quote-post this post until end of April, telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties". We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🚨 We're now at 7000 followers here on bluesky. Who would have thought that an account centring on the academic discussion of sovereignty could become so big! Thank you all for following and please check out the book!

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🛜 🗣️ 💬 We're spekaing later today to the history students of the University of Lodz online. Join us if you can! www.facebook.com/events/60512...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Check out these impressions from the book talk today at the British University in Egypt. Thank you to the team in political science for hosting the event, thank you to everyone who came, and a special thank you to Professor Hadia and Professor Amany. www.instagram.com/reel/DIMHmQr...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🚨 🗣️ 💬 The next book talk will be in Cairo 🇪🇬 at the British University in Egypt on April 8 at 11am.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🌎 There's so much happening in that sentence... but just because Trump uses sovereignty mostly as an empty signifier doesn't mean sovereignty isn't an important analytical category when thinking about Trump.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

🎓 New book by Blaire Morseau @blairemorseau.bsky.social on "Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters" (with a fantastic cover). uapress.arizona.edu/book/mapping...

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