Statelessness

A Modern History

Mira L. Siegelberg

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ISBN 9780674976313

Publication Date: 10/06/2020

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328 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Mira L. Siegelberg is University Lecturer in the History of International Political Thought at the University of Cambridge and a past member of the Princeton University Society of Fellows.

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At a December 2020 online event cohosted by the National History Center and the Wilson Center, watch Siegelberg explore how and why the rise and fall of statelessness in modern thought compels a new understanding of the historical relationship between states and citizens, empires and states, and of the legitimation of the territorial state against alternative forms of political organization in the twentieth century
Watch Siegelberg discuss Statelessness at an October 2020 online event hosted by Harvard Book Store of Cambridge, Massachusetts
On the podcast New Books in Intellectual History, listen to Siegelberg unpack how debates regarding statelessness redefined many of the core concepts that structured modern politics—such as sovereignty, citizenship, and the broad spectrum of terms in English, French, and German that described the state of not having a national affiliation

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