32516
Seminar
Sovereignty and Statehood in North America (including Greenland),
David Bosold
Kommentar
DJT’s proposed acquisition of Greenland and repeated attempts to question the sovereignty of Canada (by referring to it as the 51st state) have led to a renewed interest in questions of (national) sovereignty and statehood. Recent decades have seen two (seemingly) contradictory trends. On the one hand, we can observe attempts by states to assert and reclaim sovereignty (over territory, resources and/or people). Historical and ethnographic research has highlighted that indigenous conceptions of sovereignty (unsurprisingly) do not easily square with the settler-colonial foundations of American and Canadian statehood and legalistic understandings of sovereignty. In addition, territorial disputes on the status of the Artic, including the North West Passage, point to geopolitical tensions between countries – globally and, looking at the US, Canada and Greenland, in the hemisphere. On the other hand, military (NORAD) and economic integration (NAFTA/USMCA) has resulted in a diffusion or shared form of sovereignty that transcends aspects of statehood. We will seek to make sense of these alleged contradictions by studying research from political scientists, economists and historians. Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Fr, 17.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 24.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 31.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 07.11.2025 10:00 - 12:00
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Fr, 05.12.2025 10:00 - 12:00
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Fr, 19.12.2025 10:00 - 12:00
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Fr, 16.01.2026 10:00 - 12:00
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Fr, 30.01.2026 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 06.02.2026 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 13.02.2026 10:00 - 12:00