Sublime

How might the concept of national sovereignty be influenced if foundational histories were not linear, exclusive accounts of nations, civilizations or other bounded subjects but rather dispersed, cross-referenced, circulatory and shared histories?

While Zhao’s effort to create a blueprint for an alternative to the Westphalian/Vatellian/UN order is laudable, it seems quite impracticable for the foreseeable future.

We can extrapolate Collins’ insight further into the nature of the sovereign subject position among human communities.

The third category is methodological and conceptual. My goal as a scholar is to replace the still dominant ‘national-modernization’ model with the paradigm of ‘sustainable modernity’ for the humanistic disciplines.

Archives are more than a defense against psyops. They are a commitment to a new story about identities made whole in an ongoing psychological peace process.

“Sovereignty doctrine acquired its character through the colonial encounter. This is the darker history of sovereignty which cannot be explored or understood by any account of sovereignty doctrine which assumes the existence of sovereign states.”

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