Authority without territory: the institutionalization of religious transnationalism in the Shia clerical establishment This article conceptualizes the Shia clerical institution (al-ḥawza al-ʿilmiyya) as a resilient, transnational non-state authority that has shaped Shia political theology and practice. Far from an ...

New article by Ali Nematpour on "Authority without territory: the institutionalization of religious transnationalism in the Shia clerical establishment"
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Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance How do rule-makers claim authority to unilaterally make laws for other states? How do rule-takers contest these claims, and how are authority relations sub

New article by Helen E S Nesadurai on "Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance"
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For Catalan speakers, "Four constitutional infringements judged by agreement in Catalonia under French sovereignty (1642-1647)" by Josep Capdeferro
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New article from an Indonesian journal on questions of digital sovereignty in India & Indonesia by Dewi Anjani Kartika, Ahmad Sahide, Fiya Ainur Rohmatika: "How Big Tech Determines the State’s Digital Sovereignty"
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Transporting Arctic foodways: the infrastructure of food sovereignty in Nunavut, Canada The conversation around sustainable food in Canada’s Arctic today is inherently connected to the logistics of transportation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2022–2025), this research examines h...

New article by Katrin Schmid on "Transporting Arctic foodways: the infrastructure of food sovereignty in Nunavut, Canada"
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New article by Aditya Kiran Kakati and anonymous on "Zeme Olympics and the historical pathways of Naga sovereignty in checkered borderlands"
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Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Shanghai at NYU Shanghai for what will possibly be the last Shifting Sovereignties booktalk for this academic year.

Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler‐Colonial Academy This paper examines the tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and the structural and institutional logics of the settler-colonial academy. Critical scholarship suggests that higher education can re...

New article by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian & Abeer Otman on "Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler-Colonial Academy"
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Consumption, reproduction, and ecology/technology: revisiting Democracy and Empire and anti-imperial popular sovereignty In this response to critics, I address three categories of questions. A first set of questions relates to the role of class analysis in the book’s framework. A second set of questions probes my acc...

New article by Inés Valdez titled "Consumption, reproduction, and ecology/technology: revisiting Democracy and Empire and anti-imperial popular sovereignty"
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Exile Governments and the Holy See: The Politics of State Legitimacy after 1945 This article places the Holy See at the centre of a non-traditional, performative diplomatic practice linked to the maintenance of state continuity, examining its role in the activities of European...

New article by Michał Dworski on "Exile Governments and the Holy See: The Politics of State Legitimacy after 1945"
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Love, Spies, and Sovereignty: Discursive Battles over Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Same-Sex Marriage Policy - Sexuality Research and Social Policy Sexuality Research and Social Policy - Taiwan’s 2019 legalisation of same-sex marriage, the first in Asia, carried an anomaly that received far less attention: couples were ineligible to...

New article byAiden Yeh titled "Love, Spies, and Sovereignty: Discursive Battles over Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Same-Sex Marriage Policy"
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Appeals of the Saudi populace in petitions at king’s doorsteps (1990–2012) The 1990s and the 2000s were an active period of petition writing in Saudi Arabia. Addressing political leadership, Saudis from various ideological stripes signed petitions calling for reform. Thes...

New article by Safa Al-Saeedi titled "Appeals of the Saudi populace in petitions at king’s doorsteps (1990–2012)"
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Credibility Under Constraint: Britain, Baltic Gold, and the Politics of Non-Recognition This article examines the Baltic gold dispute as a lens through which to reassess Britain’s long-standing policy of non-recognition of the Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In 19...

New article by Jokūbas Pukėnas on "Credibility Under Constraint: Britain, Baltic Gold, and the Politics of Non-Recognition"
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Liberty, Sovereignty and Society We explore in this chapter the notion of liberty that will, in the end, allow us to better understand it in a world where individuals are innately social and where liberty cannot be presumed to be equally distributed. To this end, we create a sufficiently broad...

Check out the chapter "Liberty, Sovereignty and Society" in Amos Witztum's new book "The Economics of Political Philosophy"
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New article by Celeste Viedma on "Archival heritage in the peripheries: sovereignty, nation and critique in the Argentine case"
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New article by Alessandro Volpi on "The normative loop at the heart of sovereignty: Public authority, legitimacy and the common good"
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Vevchani: Sovereignty Claim, Benefits and Consequences There has been a lively debate in the international relations literature on issues of sovereignty. Among the areas of increasing discussion are the processes of claiming sovereignty. Although attempt...

New article by Islam Jusufi on small sovereignty seeking spaces using the example of Vevčani in Western North Macedonia titled "Vevchani: Sovereignty Claim, Benefits and Consequences"
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New article by Rao Mohsin Ali Noor on "The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: Fireworks and the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
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Shutting down the loudspeaker which tells your version of the story certainly feels like giving up a part of your epistemological sovereignty... 🤷‍♂️

Settler/colonialism in Kashmir ?Sovereignty, Catastrophe, Indigeneity examines Indian rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir through the lens of settler-colonial geopolitics. Engaging with settler-colonial, decolonial and Indigenous st...

New book coming out later this month by Goldie Osuri titled "Settler/colonialism in Kashmir: Sovereignty, catastrophe, indigeneity"
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The 1898 Dog Tax War as an Incursion on Māori De Recto Sovereignty In the Hokianga region of Northland in 1898, a war nearly broke out between Māori and the Crown, ostensibly over the Crown’s imposition of a tax on dogs. This article explores some of the underlyin...

New article by Paul Moon titled "The 1898 Dog Tax War as an Incursion on Māori De Recto Sovereignty"
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Shifting sovereignties: a global history of a concept in practice; Sovereignty: European and global histories, 1400-1800 Published in Comparative Legal History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

You can find the full review, which also discusses Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee's edited volume 'Sovereignty: European and global histories, 1400-1800', here:
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Quote from the review by James Sheehan: "Shifting Sovereignties is ... a twenty-first century successor to FH Hinsley's still indispensable classic, Sovereignty"

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."

Chagos Islands Sovereignty Dispute: Mauritius-UK Treaty

New article in the Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights by Peter Harris on the "Chagos Islands Sovereignty Dispute: Mauritius-UK Treaty"
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Perfecting Siam: Sovereignty, Sacred Space, and Territory at Wat Rachathiwat In 1908, the Siamese monarchy undertook the renovation of the ordination hall or ubosot of Wat Rachathiwat, a forest monastery then on the outskirts of Bangkok. Months before, the monarchy ratified...

New article by Lawrence Chua titled "Perfecting Siam: Sovereignty, Sacred Space, and Territory at Wat Rachathiwat"
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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"
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“We’re Taking it Back!” Deciphering Trumpian Designs on Panama’s Ca... By the time he took office for a second time in January 2025, Donald Trump was already known to be a U.S. nationalist and a sovereigntist (Mittelstadt, Feb. 2, 2025), but few imagined that he would...

New commentary by James Cohen: “We’re Taking it Back!” Deciphering Trumpian Designs on Panama’s Canal and Sovereignty
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Out of time: does popular sovereignty contain emancipatory remainders? Critical dissections of neoliberalism’s de-democratizing effects are ubiquitous today, both in the academy and in para-academic popular venues. Inès Valdez’s Democracy and Empire (2023) is a bracin...

New article by William Clare Roberts titled "Out of time: does popular sovereignty contain emancipatory remainders?"
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New article by Pablo Gabriel Fontana & Andrés Levinson titled "Printed claim on celluloid: the documentary Argentine Sovereignty in the Antarctica"
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Reclaiming narrative sovereignty: education as counter-narrative in Occupied Palestine In conflict settings, media literacy is a critical tool for enabling young people to navigate information ecosystems and reclaim agency. This study used a constructivist mixed-methods approach with...

New article by Hussein AlAhmad on "Reclaiming narrative sovereignty: education as counter-narrative in Occupied Palestine"
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