Philosophy
Postcolonial Sovereignty: Subaltern Critique of Western Statecraft
Quick fact
Many postcolonial thinkers argue that the rigid Westphalian model of sovereignty, which assumes absolute territorial control and a single central government, was imposed on colonized societies and continues to marginalize indigenous and subaltern forms of political organization, such as tribal councils or confederacies.
Why this is interesting
You might think a country simply 'has' sovereignty, but what if that very idea was a colonial tool? How do peoples who were never part of the Western state system claim their own political existence?