All posts by Maïa Pal

Vanity project or stroke of genius? The puzzle of Making Global Society

Maïa Pal | February 27, 2024

This is a story about institutional transition, and most importantly, about the institutional transition to a modern global society. Modernity, for Barry Buzan in Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras, is not the period that was established sometime between the early [...]

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Jurisdictional Accumulation: revisiting imperial expansion

Maïa Pal | February 9, 2021

My recent book Jurisdictional Accumulation develops a new account of extraterritoriality, which is the exercise of jurisdiction beyond its limits. This device is poorly studied in the early modern period, too quickly and narrowly associated with either the Ottoman capitulations, or with the [...]

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