This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.https://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mllgglvqts2nNew article by Andreas C Goldberg & Alessandro Nai on "Nexit, Frexit or Grexit? A Comparison of Party and Citizen Positions Towards European Union Exit Referendums" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032321726143330311 May 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllgglvqts2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mllgeumphs2nNew article by Cilas Kemedjio on "Humanitarianism and Sovereignty: Notes on a Defeat of the Postcolonial State" https://www.globalafricasciences.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art-12-04-en.pdf11 May 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllgeumphs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mlk7y7e3ok2wHelen Arling's new book on International Rights of Nature has a whole chpater on sovereignty. You can find it here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-17166-5_411 May 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlk7y7e3ok2whttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mle4yqjamc26New chapter by Alex Tomas Fusco on "Camp, Governance, State, Sovereignty" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-17209-9_608 May 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle4yqjamc26https://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mlbqiulk3c22Nre book by Charles W. A. Prior "Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic" https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496244840/treaty-ground/07 May 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbqiulk3c22https://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mkpqoqog7c2bNew article in the University of Malta's in-house journal Small States & Territories by Geoff Bertram on "Sovereignty, non-sovereignty, and economic development in small island economies: An evolving story" https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/145794/1/Sovereignty_non_sovereignty_and_economic_development_in_small_island_economies.pdf30 Apr 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpqoqog7c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mkpqlrfmok2bNew working paper by @gabriellelim.bsky.social on "The Cost of Control: Challenges and Trade-Offs of Digital Sovereignty" https://www.cigionline.org/static/documents/DPH-Paper-PolicyMemo-Lim.pdf30 Apr 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpqlrfmok2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mkpqgi6sbc2bNew OA chapter by @sabrinafernandes.com on "Faulty State Sovereignty in the Polycrisis: Arguments for Considering ‘Ecological Sovereignty’ in Left Internationalism" https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003466239-12/faulty-state-sovereignty-polycrisis-sabrina-fernandes (It's nice to see that people are starting to use Shifting Sovereignties in their research!)30 Apr 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpqgi6sbc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mklxt6vdsc2nNew article by Özgür Salmanoğ on "Exception, sovereignty and constitutional order: A Schmittian reading of Turkey’s constitutional trajectory" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-constitutionalism/article/exception-sovereignty-and-constitutional-order-a-schmittian-reading-of-turkeys-constitutional-trajectory/BFE4003F85C1BBCEE7DAA0151C77E1F329 Apr 2026 01:41 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklxt6vdsc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mkf75r43qc2qNew article by Rasidi Okunola & Austin Ayodele on "Sovereignty under siege: state response, fragility and the political ecology of banditry in Sokoto, Nigeria" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592318.2026.266193726 Apr 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkf75r43qc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mka6jhnlk22lNew article by Markus Virgil Hoehne & Jethro Norman on "The Paradox of Progress: Foreign Investments, Kinship, State-Building, and Conflict in Somaliland" https://academic.oup.com/afraf/advance-article/doi/10.1093/afraf/adag012/865885624 Apr 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mka6jhnlk22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjra2s74o22dNew article by Ali Nematpour on "Authority without territory: the institutionalization of religious transnationalism in the Shia clerical establishment" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2026.265525118 Apr 2026 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjra2s74o22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjoaupv3fk2tNew article by Helen E S Nesadurai on "Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance" https://academic.oup.com/ia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ia/iiag036/865302517 Apr 2026 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoaupv3fk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjoaqeap4k2tFor Catalan speakers, "Four constitutional infringements judged by agreement in Catalonia under French sovereignty (1642-1647)" by Josep Capdeferro https://publicacions.iec.cat/repository/pdf/00000542/00000058.pdf17 Apr 2026 06:01 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoaqeap4k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjoan47c422tNew 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" https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jhi/article/view/2879217 Apr 2026 05:59 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoan47c422thttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjoajhvw4k2tNew article by Katrin Schmid on "Transporting Arctic foodways: the infrastructure of food sovereignty in Nunavut, Canada" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2026.2651494 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2026.2651494?__cf_chl_rt_tk=SOKxnxk6BbdUkukz92is_V5IxkkpMfuQt8.afTXL4QA-1776405311-1.0.1.1-VDc2R9uBiRjujiGgwkhAzvDLzCB7KLliz0bDL8AWi6I17 Apr 2026 05:57 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoajhvw4k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjoacjgzgk25New article by Aditya Kiran Kakati and anonymous on "Zeme Olympics and the historical pathways of Naga sovereignty in checkered borderlands" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21622671.2026.264294017 Apr 2026 05:53 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoacjgzgk25https://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjmpazglrs2dJoin @mihatsch.bsky.social in Shanghai at NYU Shanghai for what will possibly be the last Shifting Sovereignties booktalk for this academic year.16 Apr 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmpazglrs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjkac26g5k2aNew article by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian & Abeer Otman on "Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler-Colonial Academy" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/socf.7006915 Apr 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkac26g5k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjka65qszc2aNew article by Inés Valdez titled "Consumption, reproduction, and ecology/technology: revisiting Democracy and Empire and anti-imperial popular sovereignty" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698230.2026.264529615 Apr 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjka65qszc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjk7wlbozk2aNew article by Michał Dworski on "Exile Governments and the Holy See: The Politics of State Legitimacy after 1945" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2026.2657599?af=R15 Apr 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjk7wlbozk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjcgy3er722lNew article byAiden Yeh titled "Love, Spies, and Sovereignty: Discursive Battles over Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Same-Sex Marriage Policy" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01314-912 Apr 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcgy3er722lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjcgvaadys2lNew article by Safa Al-Saeedi titled "Appeals of the Saudi populace in petitions at king’s doorsteps (1990–2012)" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2026.2652396?af=R12 Apr 2026 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcgvaadys2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mjcgsqv7322lNew article by Jokūbas Pukėnas on "Credibility Under Constraint: Britain, Baltic Gold, and the Politics of Non-Recognition" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2026.2656997?af=R12 Apr 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcgsqv7322lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mj76ek5x4s2vCheck out the chapter "Liberty, Sovereignty and Society" in Amos Witztum's new book "The Economics of Political Philosophy" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-04799-1_311 Apr 2026 06:08 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj76ek5x4s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mj76byr5mc2vNew article by Celeste Viedma on "Archival heritage in the peripheries: sovereignty, nation and critique in the Argentine case" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13527258.2026.265484911 Apr 2026 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj76byr5mc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mj765vdcp22vNew article by Alessandro Volpi on "The normative loop at the heart of sovereignty: Public authority, legitimacy and the common good" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474885126142936311 Apr 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj765vdcp22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/shiftingsovs.bsky.social/post/3mj764chopk2vNew 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" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sena.7003811 Apr 2026 06:04 +0000at://did:plc:odkaon7p7o2qg577mf2liaef/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj764chopk2v