Shifting Sovereignties

Many thanks to James Sheehan for his very generous review in Comparative Legal History (@esclh), where he writes: "They ... transcend the European experience on which most of the scholarly literature on sovereignty has been based."

@smore_lil Sounds like you need to *shift* your expectations... 😇

@ShiftingSovs I misinterpreted the post as a link to a free book and am now furious. Please correct this issue

Get the translated copy of Yongle Zhang's "Shifting Boundaries: A Global History of the Monroe Doctrine" and a copy of our book, to start your "Shifting..." book collection. degruyterbrill.com/de/document/is…

New OA book by Alejandra Mancilla on Antarctica — "From Sovereignty to Guardianship: Governing Antarctica, Governing the World" academic.oup.com/book/62732

New article by Rakesh Kumar titled "Digital terra nullius? Artificial intelligence experimentation and sovereignty in Australia" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (Missed opportunity to coin the term "terra nullius digitalis"... you heard it here first)

New article by Aaron Greenberg: "Still life with sovereignty: new materialist biopolitics" tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Do states create systems, or do systems create states? Michael McCall and I provide an answer in our new EJIR article.

Publication day! Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945 is now out with @CornellPress! It offers a comprehensive account of the causes and consequences of attempts to conquer territory across the world since WWII.

New article by Ricardo René Larémont on "Sovereignty Entrepreneurship: Morocco’s Diplomacy of Recognition in a Multipolar Order" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New chapter by Gian Luca Podestà on "Limited Sovereignty: Colonial Currencies and Maria Theresa Thaler in Eritrea and Ethiopia (1885–1941)" link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

New edited volume by Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet on "The Politics of Independence Referendums: Never Mind the Ballots" link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

"A Westphalia for every weather" by Jens Bartelson has recently been published in EJIR and is now available online with open access. You can read it here: t1p.de/135cc

New article by Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasutht on "Decolonizing International Law: Wellington Koo’s Dissents Against Empire From the International Court of Justice Bench" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New article by @AndGreiner on "Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My article on ignorance as constitutive of international order has now found a home in print. I argue that every international order, including the liberal order, rests on systematic practices of ignorance production. Do have a look if you haven’t already! doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…

New research out on @SEAsiaResearch In this piece, I ask: How did the idea of the ‘international’ travel to Vietnam? And what does the discipline of ‘International Studies/International Relations’ look like in the country today? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article by Andreas C Goldberg & Alessandro Nai on "Nexit, Frexit or Grexit? A Comparison of Party and Citizen Positions Towards European Union Exit Referendums" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

New article by Cilas Kemedjio on "Humanitarianism and Sovereignty: Notes on a Defeat of the Postcolonial State" globalafricasciences.org/wp-content/upl…

Yes, its the content that matters, but these are three fantastic book covers.

𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩 by Nicholas Parkinson traces how one sculpture, Gloria Victis, had a profound influence on commemorative practices, weaving stories of failed revolutions and foreign conquests. 🔗 aup.nl/en/book/978904…

Helen Arling's new book on International Rights of Nature has a whole chpater on sovereignty. You can find it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…