Shifting Sovereignties
@ShiftingSovs
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Linked to our recent book, on this account we post about new research on sovereignty, and debates from news and social media which engage with the concept.
Joined July 2024
Many thanks to @AleksandraSpal3 for her generous review in @IAJournal_CH! 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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#NewPublication The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire Mustafa Aksakal . Princeton Univ Pr 2025 #OpenAccess prelims & Introduction : History as a Minefield PDF 🎯 https://t.co/HabmwpBW2f
https://t.co/dAz65M5gRO
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New in paperback! Disarming Apartheid | Brings to the fore apartheid South Africa's unique disarmament experience and traces its uncharted the path towards NPT accession. | Save 20% with code MOSER24 📚 https://t.co/RVeuNgXPEH
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An "important book" + "a way forward for the Global South". A review of our THE NON-ALIGNED WORLD ( @politybooks) with Fortin and Ominami, in GLOBAL POLICY. #ActiveNonAlignment is making its mark ! @AmitavAcharya @svaradarajan @AdilNajam @Bruceps
https://t.co/QD2FHuQNZH
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📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Identity, cyber-sovereignty, and Ukraine: Towards an ontological security theory of cyberwarfare' by Roman Kolodii. 🔗 https://t.co/1kGSyagIMm
@PolStudiesAssoc
journals.sagepub.com
In 2022, Ukraine centralised its social, economic, and kinetic resources to counter the Russian invasion. Yet, in cyberspace, it mustered an anonymous, voluntee...
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...and accessibility. ... [Through many examples] the authors illustrate the contested and evolving nature of sovereignty with clarity and insight." Read the full review for yourself:
academic.oup.com
Shifting sovereignties explores the concept of sovereignty through a global historical lens that pays close attention to different political, cultural and
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my quotes in @guardian “Historically, there’s this notion that greater defence cooperation is questionable for sovereignty...But the counter argument is that we have a huge dependency on the US. ... sovereignty doesn’t sit in Europe – it’s in Washington.” https://t.co/TPZPWtmH5H
theguardian.com
The EU wants independence on defence but it is buying thousands of weapons from the US each year
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Nationalism and the Transformation of the State by Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Carl Müller-Crepon and Yannick I. Pengl 📚 https://t.co/M2eEc07niG
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Colonialism and the EU Legal Order by Hanna Eklund This book shows how Europe's history of colonialism has shaped the development of the European Union's legal order. 📚 https://t.co/eq9pEKMxcg
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We have some great author events coming up in November, including the launch for "Decolonizing Afghanistan," featuring co-editor @wazhmah and several contributors. Hope you can make it to some of these events! https://t.co/nHRkqVWYkd
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Now on FirstView: Vicarious Sovereignty? Taimur Reza analyzes the place of extraterritorial Turkey in the vision of Bengali Muslims at the turn of the twentieth century (1890–1917)
cambridge.org
Vicarious Sovereignty: The Place of Extraterritorial Turkey in the Vision of Bengali Muslims (1890–1917)
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Now online: Eric Loefflad (@UniKent) reviews "Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (@EdinburghUP, 2024) by @CSAshcroft
https://t.co/6DTeqZADCb
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“The world without hegemony” — A long-form article based on my book with @AmitavAcharya! Many thanks to @samhaselby! @aeonmag @yalepress
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I have a new essay - on the emptiness of sovereignty rhetoric behind "sovereign AI" - in the November issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. English version, paywalled, is here
mondediplo.com
Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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Out now! Williams' Understanding International Security | Clarifies the concept of security, the debates around it, how it is defined, and how it is pursued. Find out more: ☑️ https://t.co/wchko7KWHn
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Many thanks to @BenjaminFogel for quoting Shifting Sovereignties in his interesting article on the Trump administration's recent actions in the Caribbean.
a conception of sovereignty premised on “the strong do what they will,” in what the young now call the “masks off” era — an era in which there is not even the pretense of grounding such violence in universal principles or international law. https://t.co/tiNFp1atuj
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You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyter_brill website ( https://t.co/i9h3E0r4iK ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
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