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!

Fresh and #OpenAccess, check out 'Intra-Caribbean Diplomacy and Imperial Negotiation; Edward Trelawny, the Marquis de Larnage, and Anglo-French relations in the West Indies, 1720–1748' by Christos Giannatos: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

🇳🇱 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. 🗣️💬

New article by Elisabeth Leake on "Decolonization as Dissent, Dissent as Decolonization" muse.jhu.edu/article/980184

New article by Maryam Shahid Khan on '"Dividing the Nation into Patricians and Plebeians": Pakistan National Congress and the Decolonizing Politics of Constitution Making' muse.jhu.edu/article/980187

New round table on 'The "Winds of Change" Blew in Many Directions: Decolonization, Dissent, and Opposition' with Cemil Aydin, Claire Eldridge, Emma Hunter, Elisabeth Leake, Su Lin Lewis, Erez Manela, Lydia Walker muse.jhu.edu/article/980185

New article by David Stenner on "Feudal Lords, Foreign Hands, and the Formation of Sovereignty in Decolonizing Morocco" muse.jhu.edu/article/980188

New article by Cezary Pachnik on "Self-Identification and Resources: The Limited Right to Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources of National Minorities and Indigenous Peoples" brill.com/view/journal...

🌍🇨🇦 Carney says that he wants to "combine to create a third path with impact". The parallels to the language of the non-aligned during the Cold War is quite striking.

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

Kicking off 2026 with a new piece in @sciasculture.bsky.social titled “Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s Technological Republic and the Nationalist Faction of the Tech Oligarchy". The piece is part of the forum on "Tech Oligarchy" edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social. A brief summary:

Casper Andersen and my article on UNESCO's History of Mankind in the context of decolonisation is out now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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. 🤷‍♂️

New article on Alaska tribal sovereignty by Nazune Menka scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...

New chapter by Andrey Makarychev on "Linguistic Sovereignty and Vernacular Biopolitics: Estonian Russophones as a Postcolonial Phenomenon" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New article by Frank Van Nuys titled "The Endangered Species Act and Limitations on Tribal Sovereignty: The Case of Nez Perce Wolf Management" online.ucpress.edu/phr/article-...

Check out the new Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power edited by Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social and Lucia Rubinelli @luxirubsi.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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This article carries water for the Trump administration by imagining the potential acquisition of Greenland as a record-breaker. It’s also just plain wrong. Greenland is not larger than the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Let me explain... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...

Published today: "Pirate Imperialism — Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870" by Manuel Barcia yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

📆 Tomorrow!

This looks fascinating. "‘Don’t cause trouble’: speculative governance, ward administration and fragmented sovereignty in urban Myanmar" vyFrancesca Chiu www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Brett J. Kyle, Tricia D. Olsen & Andrew G. Reiter's new monograph on iolence and democracy in Latin America includes a chapter on "Violence at Mexican Borders: Sovereignty, Drugs, and Migration" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New article by Gumani Tshimomola on "The Treasury, Fiscal Policy and the Crisis of Parliamentary Sovereignty in South Africa’s Coalition Era" muse.jhu.edu/pub/99/artic...

New open access chapter by Luis G. Martínez-del-Campo on "Diplomatic Pawns: Cross-Border Workers and the Spanish Claim to Sovereignty over Gibraltar, 1945–69" in an edited volume on borders crossing. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New chapter by Nikoloz Aleksidze on 'The “Lot of the Mother of God”: Imperial Mystique and the Language of Sovereignty in Modern Georgian Political Thought' www.researchgate.net/profile/Lili...

Check out this thread on the new special issue by @mihatsch.bsky.social and Casper Andersen on history writing after independence. One of the concepts which they use throughout the special issue is "epistemological sovereignty".

I wrote an Expert Comment for the University of Oxford on the implications of the US aggression against Venezuela for International Law and Global Security. My argument in brief below: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

"When the mine ran out around 1885, one might think that’d be it for Neutral Moresnet. But no: like microstates the world over, it simply shifted its economy into more contested areas..." You* asked, I delivered: a brief history of Neutral Moresnet (*Possibly not actually you)

New handbook chapter by Rafaela Resende Sanches & Victor de Matos Nascimento on "The Geopolitics of the Amazon Region in the 21st Century: Strategic Resources and Sovereignty in Question in Brazil" link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

New article by Sara Frumento on "The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🇻🇪🧵 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

Now that the US is leaving the International Cotton Advisory Committee, will the headquarters be moved to a member state? On a more serious note, how does this organisation "no longer" serve American interests? And how much do the US save...

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.

New article by Niccolò Bertuzzi on "The energy transition(s) in Catalonia, Corsica, and Sardinia: Between sufficiency, sustainability and sovereignty" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Joseph Comer tackling residence-by- and citizenship-by-investment titled "Articulating Ease, Selling Sovereignty: Brokerage as Borderscaping in the Discourse of Investment Migration" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Eric Repetto on "Symbiotic rivals? Writing state sovereignty through its contestation in the struggle between Australia and the digital giants" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...