War, State and Sovereignty : Interdisciplinary Challenges and Perspectives for the Social Sciences / Grégory Daho, Yann Richard.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Book's Presentation -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 The Contingency of the War-State-Sovereignty Triad: Updating a Canonical Debate -- Trivialising War in the Scope of Human and Social Sciences -- Renegotiated Sovereignties -- A Changing Security Environment -- (Re)Positioning of Armies at the Heart of the Field of Security -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I Revisiting the Link Between War, State and Sovereignty -- 2 Is War Still an Expression of State Sovereignty? Multidisciplinary Round-Table -- War and Sovereignty: A Paradoxical Relationship Viewed Through the Prism of the State -- National and International Sovereignty of the State: The Right to Wage War vs. the Law of War? -- Towards a New Relationship Between State, War, and Sovereignty? -- References -- 3 Vladimir Putin's Territorial Trap: What the Invasion of Ukraine Reveals About the Contemporary War-Sovereignty Nexus -- Putin, Sovereignty, War and Geopolitical Order -- Sovereignty, Power, and Territory in Putin's War -- Putin's Contradictory Discourse About Sovereignty and Territory (Classical and Imperialist) -- Sovereignty Regimes and Modalities of Power -- How Contradictory Russian Sovereignty Claims Have Worked Out in the War -- Vladimir Putin's Territorial Trap -- References -- 4 The Omnipresent Absent: The State at the Centre of the War-Sovereignty Dialectic -- The Persistence of the State in the War-Sovereignty Dialectic -- Observation of the Resistance of the State -- Justification for the Persistence of the State -- The Relativisation of the State in the War-Sovereignty Dialectic -- Renouncing War or Calling Sovereignty into Question -- Considering the War-Sovereignty Dialectic Without the State -- References -- 5 The Failed Gamble of the 1920s: Sovereignty Without War.

The Legitimacy of War Questioned or Sovereignty Curtailed -- War, the Driving Force Behind the History of States -- The Conversion of Violence into an International Pact -- The Forbidden War -- The Discredited Nation-State -- References -- 6 Political-Military Relations. Civil Supremacy Under the Test of Sovereignty -- Maintenance of Emergency Power and Presidentialisation of Crisis Management -- Extension of the Political (Mis)use of the Military Institution -- Politicisation of Military Officers -- Return of Competition Between Powers in an Era of Interdependence -- References -- Part II Case Studies of Contested and Renegotiated Sovereignty -- 7 Security and Regional Integration Through a Maritime Lens: Shared Sovereignty and Non-cooperation in the Inter-American Region -- The Increasing Maritimisation of Crime in the Inter-American Region -- A Shared Perception of Threats and the Construction of Communities of Actors -- Developing Common Practices and Strengthening Regional Integration Processes -- A Fall in Border Effects Remains Limited and Vulnerable to Non-Cooperation -- References -- 8 When the "War on Terror" Undermines the Sovereignty of Fragile, Failing and Failed States -- State Failure: A Deficiency in the Effective Exercise of State Sovereignty -- The Consequences of State Failure and the Weakening of Respect for Its Sovereignty from Other States -- References -- 9 De Facto Sovereignty and Multilateral Sanctions for a Return to Constitutional Order in a Context of Regional Armed Conflict: The Case of Mali -- The Unprecedented Context of a Double Coup D'état in Mali -- The Regional Organisations' Role in Managing the Malian Crisis -- Sanctions, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect Under International Law -- The Uncertain Impact of the ECOWAS and WAEMU Sanctions -- References -- 10 Outer Space, War and Sovereignty.

Space as a Singular Vector of National Security During the Cold War, 1957-1983 -- Space as the Undisputed Infrastructure of American Military Superiority, 1983-1994 -- The United States' Supremacy in Space Facing a Potential Challenge, 1995-2006 -- Space as a Theatre of Military Operations, Myths and Realities, 2006-2019 -- National Positions: Between Deterrence and Operational Means, 2019-2022 -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Foreign Military Bases and the Sovereignty of Local Communities: The Case of Poland -- Foreign Military Bases and Sovereignty -- Historical Context of Foreign Troops in Poland -- Local Views of a Foreign Military Presence -- Drawbacks and Disadvantages -- Benefits, Opportunities, and Positive Impacts -- Expectations and Disappointments -- References -- 12 War and Sovereignty: "Words that Go Together Well" for an Interdisciplinary Approach -- Law and History: A Consubstantiality Between War, Sovereignty and the Formation of States? -- Law, Political Science and History: Sovereignty, War, Powers, Institutions and Actors -- Political Science, Economics and History: The Variations and Limits of Sovereignty -- Geography, Political Science and History: Spaces and Territories in the Reconfiguration of Sovereignties in the Face of War -- References -- Index.

This book addresses the links between war, state and sovereignty using an interdisciplinary approach. The authors and editors investigate the transformation of the state through the practices of security governance - an effective way to question the evolution of authority and legitimacy of state violence, and the organisation of human societies. This work contributes to the understanding of the transformation of state through the prism of security challenges and provides the means to identify the evolution of their regalian contours, the legal and technical forms of regulating violence, and the legitimisation of public power. This volume shows that the contribution of the social sciences is decisive for understanding the changes of the role and insertion of armed forces in their political, social and professional environment. Grégory Daho is Associate Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Yann Richard is Professor of Geography at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France.

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