⚽️ football meets sovereignty — a little too on the nose... and yes, don't get me started on FIFA... May the better team win tonight... wait... did I say better? I meant Belgian... May the Belgian team win tonight 🇧🇪

New edited volume by Logan Cochrane and Alexandra Wilson titled "Resilient Statehood: Why and How Some Nations Maintained Long-Term Independence and Sovereignty" with chapters on Iran, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Thailand, Japan, Ethiopia... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New book by Tim Alan Garrison titled "Sovereignty on Trial: The Cherokee Nation and the Fight for Native Rights: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.33...

This looks fantastic. Steven Press is just such an amazing historian picking interesting themes and topics. His first book is Rogue Empires we quote in Shifting Sovereignties, then he wrote a book on German imperialism in Africa and diamonds and now this!

Hey @academic.oup.com, there's something wrong with how your website talks to Bluesky...

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

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. www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

Nre book by Charles W. A. Prior "Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic" www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Shanghai at NYU Shanghai for what will possibly be the last Shifting Sovereignties booktalk for this academic year.

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."

Brace yourself: the civilisation sovereignty nexus is making a comeback.

Escape the dreary Utrecht weather, and join us for a "cozy" discussion of sovereignty this evening.

New book by Stephen Onyango Ouma titled "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation" brill.com/display/titl...

I think I missed this when it came out in December. "Radical Sovereignty — Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America" by Tony Wood www.ucpress.edu/books/radica...

🇳🇱 Living in the Netherlands and interested in sovereignty? Come to the Utrecht Lectures in Political History with @mihatsch.bsky.social on 19 Feb, 5:15 PM at the University of Utrecht, organised by @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social. 🗣️💬

Next book presentation, @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at @aiasdk.bsky.social on February 13, 9:45–11am. For details, check the post below.

When we started working on Shifting Sovereignties, friends suggested that sovereignty would be an irrelevant issue and out-dated concept by the time the book is being published... we truly wish they had been right. 🤷‍♂️

🇻🇪🧵 What a start into the new year. It unfortunately looks like discussions around sovereignty will be with us a little longer. There is some excellent analysis on the specific case, so we leave that to our colleagues who work specifically on US and Latin American history. 1/n

Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Florence on Jan 14, 5pm at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for the first Max Weber lecture of the year.

Receiving another book review is a great way to end the year: many thanks to Bela Hubenstorf and Natalie Tongue for their excellent review in @globalhistories.bsky.social. For the full review, see here: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH...

We wish you all a Very Happy New Year with many inspiring new books and lots of exciting research on sovereignty and its discontents. 🍾🥂🎉

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May Levia-claus bring you a lot of good books as presents. 🎅🎄🎁

Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social! 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...

You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.

📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.

📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

📚 Still looking for some light summer beach reading? 🏖️ Get Shifting Sovereignties at an unbeatable price (for only €35.97 / £32.70 / $39.59) 🏄 with the discount code DGBSUMMER25, when ordering on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website. ☀️ @dgb-history.bsky.social

📽️ 🎞️ Adam Curtis is doing a series on Shifty Sovereignty it seems... www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...

🇪🇺 Happy Europe Day! (Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)

📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social