Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice

by Michael Mulligan and Moritz Mihatsch

Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it destabilises overly neat theoretical notions of the concept. Shifting Sovereignties shows that, in practice, sovereignty is far from absolute, perpetual, indivisible, or supreme; rather it is fuzzy, compromised, fragmented, and layered. From these observations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111446565
• ISBN13: 9783111446561
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 370 Pages