Mark Shirk Making War on the World (Hardback) (US IMPORT)

Making War on the WorldHow Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order\nAuthor(s): Mark Shirk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231201865, 978-0231201865\nSynopsis\nThe state bounds politics: it constructs and enforces boundaries that separate what it controls from what lies outside its domain. However, states face a variety of threats that cross and challenge their geographical and conceptual boundaries. Transnational violent actors that transcend these boundaries also defy the states claims to political authority and legitimacy.\n\nMark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. He considers a series of crises that plagued the state system in different eras: golden-age piracy in the eighteenth century, anarchist propagandists of the deed at the turn of the twentieth, and al-Qaeda in recent years. S.