Sovereignty, War, and the Global State
This book highlights the existence of a class of struggles conducted in the gray zones of formalized war, or more aptly in the interstices where state power and jurisdiction are mismatched. These “sovereign interstices” are inextricable from the negative
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Sovereignty, War, and the Global State
Dylan Craig
Sovereignty, War, and the Global State
Dylan Craig School of International Service American University Washington, DC, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-19885-5 ISBN 978-3-030-19886-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19886-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Alex Linch / shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgments
This book is the product of nine years of consistent focus on the conduct of violence by states using irregular forces in geopolitically complex conditions. During that time, I have benefited greatly from the mentorship and support of teachers and peers too numerous to mention individually. In particular, however, I want to thank Isabelle Duyvesteyn, who provided me with my first collegial contact outside my home institution and showed me how intellectual exchange was meant to work; Ken Menkhaus, who first impressed on me the importance of moving quickly on my intuitions about proxy war after we spoke at a conference in 2009; Philip Brenner and Chuck Call, who bought me many lunches and coffees when days were dark and graduate student funds were few; Boaz Atzili, for providing a calm and inspiring voice in our many discussions of proxy war; and Maria Green Cowles, who hired me on at the School of International Service in 2011 and made my further scholarly work on this topic financially possible. In more ways than one, this book owes its existence to Janice E. Thomson’s Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns and Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions, both of which inspired me and showed me how patterns in hist
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