Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty

My book is in some ways trying to help us see not only the kind of deep intermingling of pre-modern and modern ideas of sovereignty, but how we repeat some of those more fantastical attributes of sovereignty that we might otherwise presume to be long gone remnants of a more superstitious or religious age.
Natasha Wheatley

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A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com (wp.me/pavhaU-2oF).

Natasha Wheatley is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (amzn.to/3CQ943m).

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:40
• The State as Modern and Pre-Modern - 2:52
• The Habsbug Empire - 9:21
• Collapse of an Empire - 24:09
• The State and International Law - 40:55
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The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (amzn.to/44fuv9M) by Natasha Wheatley

Learn More About Natasha Wheatley (history.princeton.edu/people/natasha-wheatley)

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