Shutting down the loudspeaker which tells your version of the story certainly feels like giving up a part of your epistemological sovereignty... 🤷‍♂️

New book coming out later this month by Goldie Osuri titled "Settler/colonialism in Kashmir: Sovereignty, catastrophe, indigeneity" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

New article by Paul Moon titled "The 1898 Dog Tax War as an Incursion on Māori De Recto Sovereignty" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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."

New article in the Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights by Peter Harris on the "Chagos Islands Sovereignty Dispute: Mauritius-UK Treaty" link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

New article by Lawrence Chua titled "Perfecting Siam: Sovereignty, Sacred Space, and Territory at Wat Rachathiwat" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi, Samuel Kehinde Okunade, Ebenezer Oluwole Oni & Leo Otimeyin Asumu "Interrogating the Secession Struggle of Biafra in Nigeria Within the Context of the Agitation and Emergence of South Sudan" brill.com/view/journal...

New commentary by James Cohen: “We’re Taking it Back!” Deciphering Trumpian Designs on Panama’s Canal and Sovereignty journals.openedition.org/ideas/24529

New article by William Clare Roberts titled "Out of time: does popular sovereignty contain emancipatory remainders?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Pablo Gabriel Fontana & Andrés Levinson titled "Printed claim on celluloid: the documentary Argentine Sovereignty in the Antarctica" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Hussein AlAhmad on "Reclaiming narrative sovereignty: education as counter-narrative in Occupied Palestine" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Keith Cherry on "Sovereignty, Difference & Constitutional Pluralism: The European Union and Canada in Dialog" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article by Nina C. Krickel-Choi & Minseon Ku on "The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article by Lere Amusan on "50 Years of ECOWAS existence without food sovereignty: a route not taken" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming 'Rethinking Internationalism' conference on 19-20th March in London: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

New handbook chapter by Peter Niesen on "Bentham: Sovereignty and Constitutive Authority" academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

New article by Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, Martynas Jakulis, Aivaras Poška, Andrej Ryčkov & Jurgita Verbickienė on "Performing the border: Mapping smuggling and state sovereignty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania-Prussia borderlands" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article Ariel Ahram by on "Territory, sovereignty and rebel oil governance in the Arab uprisings" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Bama Andika Putra on "Post-pandemic Southeast Asia: revisiting the relevance of the sovereignty script" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New article by Tianren Luo, William Xing, and Jingjia Xiao on "Digital Sensing, Infrastructure of Sovereignty, and the Unmaking of the Chinese Surveillance State" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New chapter by Leonard Mbulle-Nziege on "Colonialities, Decolonisation, and Harnessing Financial Sovereignty and Economic Structures" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New article by Havva Yavuz on "Jerusalem and the Unresolved Question of Sovereignty" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New book by S. Yaqub Ibrahimi on "The Shah of Afghanistan: Politics in a Fragile State" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New article by Andrew Apter titled "Slavery, Sovereignty, and the Fante State: The Rise of a Ritual Confederacy in Eighteenth-Century Ghana" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Many thanks @mihatsch.bsky.social for your fantastic lecture yesterday @humanitiesuu.bsky.social on your book @shiftingsovs.bsky.social! It was fascinating, thought-provoking and timely!

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

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

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

New article by Ibrahim Burhan Isik on "Electrifying Sovereignty The Politics of Infrastructure and Emerging Governance Dynamics in Southeastern Turkey" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

New chapter by Martti Koskenniemi on "State Sovereignty and the Origins of International Legal Formalism" where he explores the historical & intellectual context of the late-19th cent for the adoption of a formalist focus on the sovereign will of states. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New article by Arjuna Da Silva & Alena Gross on "ECOWAS and inverted sacrifice zones: towards a new regional paradigm for sovereignty and sustainability in West Africa" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Ryota Hiyane & Long Piao which is "Reexamining Shifting ROC Positions on the Sovereignty of the Ryukyus (1943–1972)" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Jack Buchan & Murat Üngör on "Monetary sovereignty in the digital age: the role of Central bank digital currencies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Marcin Kosienkowski on "Unilateral Sovereignty Referendums by Territorial Autonomies: Motivations and the Case of Gagauzia’s 2014 Referendums" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We rarely post arxiv papers, but for this we'll make an exception. "Cooperative Sovereignty on Mars: Lessons from the International Telecommunication Union and Universal Postal Union" by Alexander H. Ferdinand Ferguson and Jacob Haqq-Misra arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08853

Happening this Thursday at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social: join us at 5:00 PM to hear Moritz Mihatsch's lecture on @shiftingsovs.bsky.social - all welcome!

New article by Gareth Knapman on "Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–1815" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🇳🇱🗣️💬 Come and discuss sovereignty with me in Utrecht on 19 February 2026 at 17:15 (details in the link). www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

🇳🇴 Join us tomorrow!

New article by Eleanor Dayan & Aviad Rubinon "Complexities of governance and sovereignty in maritime security" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article by Hira Ausaf & Muhammad Shoaib Pervez on "Stateness under Disputed Sovereignty: Youth Narratives of Constitutional Limbo in Gilgit–Baltistan" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Intro to a new special issue by Carolina Armenteros: Introduction: Sovereignty, Utility and the Problem of Monarchical Legitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Europe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Gregorio Baldin titled: “Romulus was not less prince than Trajan”: Paolo Sarpi, reader of Jean Bodin and theorist of sovereignty (The early consulti, 1606) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Alexander O’Kane titled "The Standard of Civilisation in Anglo-Japanese Treaty Revision, 1890–94" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 NEW BLOG ALERT! To ring in the new year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana Vieira is back with 5️⃣ recommendations of the latest International Relations books to keep you hooked. Check them out 👇 medium.com/internationa...

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...

New chapter on Ukranie by Oksana Myshlovska: "Managing Contested Sovereignty Claims: The Failure of Agonistic Peace and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation During Viktor Yushchenko’s Presidency (2005–2010)" link.springer.com/chapter/10.5...

New article on "Balancing regional cooperation versus national sovereignty: local discontent with African regional organisations’ involvement in restoring political stability in West Africa" by Abdul-Jalilu Ateku www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New year, new instalment of the Utrecht Lectures in Political History! On Thursday 19 February 2026, @mihatsch.bsky.social (Wenzhou-Kean University), author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social, will deliver the fifteenth Utrecht Lecture in Political History at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social!

🕯️🎉🥂 One year ago Shifting Sovereignties came out. We are very grateful for the reception the book has received from readers, at book talks in 5 countries on 3 continents, and in 2 very positive reviews. We look forward to seeing very soon what people are doing with our ideas in their own research!