Shifting Sovereignties

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."

This looks fascinating... new article by Bing Yu Icon & Yun Huang on "Governing Imperial Ambitions and Local Interests: The Transformation of Opium Policy in Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1906–1914". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The third article of @global-ih.bsky.social's Book Forum Special Issue on Shifting Sovereignties is out now. Check out Katherine M. Beall's "Shifting Sovereignties and Sovereignty as Failed Aspiration" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 @naomukoyama.bsky.social's intro to the Book Forum Special Issue on Shifting Sovereignties in @global-ih.bsky.social titled "Sovereignty – What Else?" is out. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We're most grateful for his effort writing this contribution & editing the forum.

New article by Tirthankar Roy on "Constructing a Colonial State: The Land Rights Debate in Eighteenth-Century Bengal" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article by Tasleem Malik, Faizullah Jan, and Anwar Khan on "Vaccine Refusal in Contested Borderlands: Biopolitics, Fragmented Sovereignty, and Differentiated Resistance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article by Richard Atimniraye Nyelade & Yimovie Sakue-Collins titled ➡️ “Seek ye epistemic freedom first”: Chinweizu, Pan-Africanism, and the foundations of African sovereignty. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article by Eugénio Costa Almeida titled "Sovereignty under Construction: Amílcar Cabral and the Reconfiguration of Lusophone Countries in the International System" in a special issue on Amilcar Cabral. janusonline.autonoma.pt/en/edicao/so...

New article by Turgut Subaşı on "The sovereign Porte: Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy and the defensive recognition of the Armenian Protestant millet: 1846–1850" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OpenAccess - There is no outside: on the impossibility of non-Eurocentrism - cup.org/4zcC9RW - Ilan Kapoor (York University) #FirstView

New (weirdly timely?) chapter by Déborah Cohen on "French Revolution populists and populisms: How the sovereignty of the people is shaped for Robespierre and the Enragés" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

New article by Livnat Konopny-Decleve titled "Solidarity in the Borderlands of Sovereignty – A Potential (Un)Ontopology" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Todd Gooch titled "Pantheism, Personalism, and Popular Sovereignty: The Politico-Theological Significance of The Essence of Christianity (1841)" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New article by Darío Vázquez, Verónica Robert and Ignacio Oscar Cretini on "The pursuit of industrial sovereignty in the face of increasing knowledge base complexity. The case of the medical device sector" academic.oup.com/icc/advance-...

New article by Kwangyong Park on what he calls "Value Sovereignty" — a concept which he suggests allows us to explore the limits of democratic delegation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New-ish 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....

New article by Habiba Boumlik on "Visual Resistance and Cultural Sovereignty: Amazigh Cinema in Postcolonial North Africa" muse.jhu.edu/article/987526

New article by Amanda C Demmer on "Suffering and Sovereignty: Moral Authority and Diplomatic Norms in the 1940s and 1970s" academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

New article by Max Ajl on "Iranian Sovereignty and the Axis Under Late Neocolonialism" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are truly excited that a special issue on our book is coming out in @global-ih.bsky.social edited by @naomukoyama.bsky.social. We will post the articles as they come out. The opening makes @xinfan.bsky.social with "Reading Shifting Sovereignties in Shanghai". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

just came out cup.columbia.edu/book/empire-...

#POLI2049 Relevant to both last week's discussion of international orders and this week's discussion of whether the origins of IR have built Euro-centric assumptions into the discipline. (Also interesting for #POLI1017)

New article by Dastan Kweka on "Tanzania as an interventionist state: from a ‘willing’ to a ‘reluctant’ intervener" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

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....

🎓 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...

New article by Andre Santos Campos on "Decoupling Generational Sovereignty: The Cross-Temporal Role of the Sovereign People" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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...

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.

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...

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...

📘 New book by Andrew Davenport titled "Capital and the International: On the Dialectic of Value and Sovereignty" bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/boo...

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

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....

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/...

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...

New book: City, Frontier and Empire: A Spatial History of British Assam, 1826-1946 by Evy Mehzabeen #urbanhistory #southasia #borderlands

Interesting new special issue asking "What was the Cold War?" edited by Silvia Pedraza www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📘 New book by Alexander Wendt titled "The Last Humans: UFOs, Global Security, and the Threat to State Sovereignty" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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...

📕 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...

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...

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...

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...