Variations on Sovereignty Contestations and Transformations from around the World

Introduction: Variations on Sovereignty

Janis Grzybowski and Hannes Černy

Part I: Theorizing Sovereignty in (I)nternational (R)elations

1. The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare

Moran Mandelbaum

2. States of Sovereignty and the Making of the World of our Making

Zoran Oklopcic

3. Ontological Security and the Emotional Significance of Sovereignty

Nina C. Krickel-Choi

Part II: Suspensions: State Sovereignty Claimed and Questioned

4. The Aporetic State: On De Facto Paradoxes and Sovereign Agency

Rebecca Bryant

5. How the Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Debate Came to Die: Western IR Scholars as Co-Protagonists of the Nationalist Conflicts They Set Out to Describe

Hannes Černy

6. "Was the ‘Islamic State’ a State?" Claiming, Contesting, and Creating Jihadist Statehood

Maj Grasten and Janis Grzybowski

Part III: Staging Sovereignty: Performances at the Boundaries of the State

7. Practicing and Performing Sovereignty Abroad: Alternative Diplomacy

Giulia Prelz Oltramonti

8. Spectacular Fishing: Embodying Sovereignty in the Post-Brexit Channel Islands and the South China Sea

Edyta Roszko

9. Self-Determination Denied and Contested: Palestine and Western Sahara

Randa Farah

Part IV: Expanding and Re-imagining Sovereignty: Imperial and Supranational Entanglements

10. EU Citizenship as Catalyst for New Sovereignty Practices

Sandra Mantu

11. Open Pit of Ontological (In)security: Poland’s Territorial Sovereignism and the Turów Lignite Mine Quagmire

Dominik Sipinski

12. Russia and Ukraine: Conflicting Time Perspectives in Recognition Policies and the Use of Force

Bruno Coppieters

Part V: Sovereignties Beyond the State

13. "Doing Sovereignty": Sardinian Independentism and the Limits of State Sovereignty

Daniela Morgan

14. Indigenous Sovereignty as the In-Between Space: What is and What is Possible

Matthew Wildcat and Justin de Leon

Biography

Hannes Černy is a Visiting Assistant Professor in International Relations/Security at Trent University (Canada). He is the author of Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict (2018).

Janis Grzybowski is Assistant Professor in Political Science/ International Relations at ESPOL at the Université Catholique de Lille and a Research Fellow at the REPI at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

'Sovereignty remains an inexhaustible source of fascination. In this exciting new volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore how contestations of sovereignty have been pushing its meaning in forever new directions in a broad spectrum of instances across the world. As such, this volume should be of interest to students of international relations, international law, and anthropology.'

Jens Bartelson, Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University

'This important new work draws on multiple disciplines and vantage points to de-parochialize our understandings of sovereignty, interrogate its constructed meanings, and illustrate the continuously contested nature of sovereignty itself.'

Thomas J. Biersteker, Gasteyger Professor Honoraire, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Wilson Center Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC

'This book showcases original and interdisciplinary research that scrutinises statehood and sovereignty in modern global politics. Hannes Černy and Janis Grzybowski are to be commended for assembling a stellar collection of nuanced contributions to these important debates.'

Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Professor of Politics, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University