This week’s CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column explores awnsers to the questions: When has a nation lost its sovereignty? and How do we determine when a nation has ceased to exist? The column, “The Substance of Sovereignty,” can be read now by clicking here. The image above of the Mashki Gate in a wall of Nineveh is by Omar Siddeeq Yousif and available on Wikimedia Commons.