Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here...

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Crisis of Power and Reformations of the State in Globalizing Realities Bruce Kapferer and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen SECTION I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, EMPIRE, STATE Chapter 1. The Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Empire June Nash Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the War in Chechnya. Chaotic Form of Sovereignty Jakob Rigi Chapter 3. Market Forces, Political Violence and War. The End of Nation-states, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties? Caroline Ifeka SECTION II: WAR ZONE Chapter 4. Rebel Ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda’s Forgotten District Kirsten Alnaes Chapter 5. The Fear of the Midnight Knock. State Sovereignty and Internal Enemies in Uganda Sverker Finnström Chapter 6. Scales of Confrontations, or the Pastoral Staff Frode Storaas SECTION III: SOVEREIGN LOGICS Chapter 7. The Sovereign as Savage. The Pathos of Ethno-nationalist Passion Christopher Taylor Chapter 8. The Paramilitary Function of Transparency in Latin America and Beyond Staffan Löfving Chapter 9. Sorcery and Death Squads. Transformations of State, Sovereignty and Violence in Postcolonial Mozambique Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 10. Collective Violence and Counter State-building. Algeria 1954-1962 Rasmus Boserup Chapter 11. Malignant Organisms. Continuities of State-run Violence in Rural Liberia Mats Utas Chapter 12. Israel’s Wall and the Logic of Encystation. Sovereign Exception or Wild Sovereignty? Glenn Bowman Notes on contributors Bibliography Index

“The variety of the essays and empirical cases demonstrate clearly the necessity of careful analysis of local situations and provide strong arguments for avoiding the overemphasis of singular explanations, such as those based on human rights…Because of its theoretical sophistication as well as empirical force the volume deserves a careful reading.”  ·  Helsinki Review of Global Governance “…this volume…provides rich theoretical and empirical inputs for discussions of some of the most important current issues concerning the state, globalization, and the use of violence.”  ·  Anthropos