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• Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-Liberal Europe : the Covid-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland 

  Makarychev, Andrey; Romashko, Tatiana (Springer, 2021)

  The paper addresses a puzzle resulting from the current global state of alert: the coronavirus pandemic brought us back to the world of the allegedly sovereign nation states with borders and national governments in charge, ...

• The limits of subtractive politics : Agamben and Rousseau’s inheritance 

  Prozorov, Sergei (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

  The article critically engages with Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Rousseau in order to explore the affinities between the two authors’ subtractive approach to political subjectivation. In The Kingdom and the Glory. Agamben ...

• ‘To Make a People Out of a Mere Population’ : Sovereignty and Governmentality in Hegemonic Russian Cultural Policy 

  Romashko, Tatiana (Brill, 2022)

  The paper claims that contemporary Russian cultural policy has been determined by political transformations associated with the political project to establish sovereignty that has organized Putin’s regime since 2012. The ...

• Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty 

  Mihkelsaar, Janar (University of Groningen Press, 2021)

  This article aims to read Rogues in order to argue that Derrida is neither an advocate of pure democracy nor a critic of sovereignty in general, but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty that is based on articulating ...

• A Farewell to Homo Sacer? Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Agamben’s Coronavirus Commentary 

  Prozorov, Sergei (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023)

  The article addresses Giorgio Agamben’s critical commentary on the global governance of the Covid-19 pandemic as a paradigm of his political thought. While Agamben’s comments have been criticized as exaggerated and ...