Elia Bescotti is a doctoral student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a doctoral associate at the Graduate School of East and Southeast Studies, University of Regensburg.Jon-Wyatt Matlack is a doctoral candidate at the University of Regensburg and a research fellow at the Leibniz ScienceCampus in Regensburg.

• Introduction: Sovereignty through Practice 1. Sovereignty and Local Governance in Violence-Affected Cities of Latin America 2. Want-to-Be-States: Practices of Sovereignty in Kurdistan-Iraq and Abkhazia since 1991 3. Infrastructures for Sovereignty: Digital Platforms in Everyday Life 4. The Decision is His Alone: The Latent Sovereignty of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe 5. Localised Sovereignty: The Borderland of Teschen Silesia in Times of Upheaval (1918-20) 6. Central Banking in Russia: The Politics of Monetary Sovereignty and the Resilience to Financial Sanctions 7. The Russian World, the Great Past, and the External Threat: Deconstructing Vladimir Putin’s Discourse on Sovereignty (1999-2022) 8. The People, the Parliament, and the Ultimate Power: Competing Political Party Discourses on Sovereignty in Post-Brexit Scotland 9. Playing for Sovereignty: Games Issued by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and Their Role in Memory Politics Section of Common Chapters: Reflexivity and the Practice of Sovereignty in Research 10. Sovereignty in the Field: Experiences and Reflections on Doing Field Research in Contested Settings 11. Information of the State: Reflections on Research Challenges in Archives and Government Statistics 12. Studying Discursive Practices of Sovereignty

Elia Bescotti is a doctoral student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a doctoral associate at the Graduate School of East and Southeast Studies, University of Regensburg.Jon-Wyatt Matlack is a doctoral candidate at the University of Regensburg and a research fellow at the Leibniz ScienceCampus in Regensburg.

• Introduction: Sovereignty through Practice 1. Sovereignty and Local Governance in Violence-Affected Cities of Latin America 2. Want-to-Be-States: Practices of Sovereignty in Kurdistan-Iraq and Abkhazia since 1991 3. Infrastructures for Sovereignty: Digital Platforms in Everyday Life 4. The Decision is His Alone: The Latent Sovereignty of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe 5. Localised Sovereignty: The Borderland of Teschen Silesia in Times of Upheaval (1918-20) 6. Central Banking in Russia: The Politics of Monetary Sovereignty and the Resilience to Financial Sanctions 7. The Russian World, the Great Past, and the External Threat: Deconstructing Vladimir Putin’s Discourse on Sovereignty (1999-2022) 8. The People, the Parliament, and the Ultimate Power: Competing Political Party Discourses on Sovereignty in Post-Brexit Scotland 9. Playing for Sovereignty: Games Issued by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and Their Role in Memory Politics Section of Common Chapters: Reflexivity and the Practice of Sovereignty in Research 10. Sovereignty in the Field: Experiences and Reflections on Doing Field Research in Contested Settings 11. Information of the State: Reflections on Research Challenges in Archives and Government Statistics 12. Studying Discursive Practices of Sovereignty