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Sovereignty

Educators: Browse Teaching Resources on Sovereignty

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Videos

What Is Sovereignty?

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Videos

Why Do We Live in Countries?

Kurds celebrate during their independence referendum by waving flags and cheering.

Readings

How Self-Determination Shaped the Modern World

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Videos

Reimagining Sovereignty in a Global Era

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Readings

Statelessness Around the World

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Readings

Tanks, Sanctions, and Separatists: The Various Challenges to Sovereignty

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Readings

The European Union: The World’s Biggest Sovereignty Experiment

An Indonesian UNIFIL peacekeeper waves a UN flag on the border between Lebanon and Israel in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh on November 30, 2009.

Timelines

The Rise and Fall of the Responsibility to Protect

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Readings

Understanding the Constructive and Destructive Natures of Nationalism

Resource Collections

Sovereignty: Challenges

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Sovereignty: Introduction

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