 | Sovereignty and Illicit Social Order Subjects: Global Development; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Economics and Development; Introductory Politics; International Political Economy; Military & Strategic Studies; Government; International Politics; International Relations; Political Philosophy; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Political Behavior and Participation; Sociology & Social Policy; Security Studies - Military & Strategic; Political Lobbying & Interest Groups; Urban Politics; Latin American Politics; Foreign Policy; Global Governance; Anarchism; Peacekeeping; Social Movements; Law & Society; Sociology of Culture; Urban Sociology; Contesting conventional assumptions of the modern nation-state, this book challenges us to rethink the segmentation of the political realm and its underlying economic and social processes. Cognizant of the historical context of systemic change, Lilyblad reconstructs how illicit social order arises from agonistic competition over territory, authority, and institutions. Immersive empirical investigation traces this bottom-up process in local conflict zones, detailing how spontaneous configurations of violence, socioeconomic resources, and legitimacy transcend the divide between public and private. Ultimately, the analytical vantage of global governance assesses the sobering implications for sovereignty to more accurately reflect the world we have, not the one we may want. By showing how these inherently local illicit social orders develop apart from - not below - the state within a global anarchic society, this book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including political scientists, economists, sociologists, geographers, as well as researchers in interdisciplinary fields such as International Development, International Political Economy, and Global Governance.
Dr Christopher Marc Lilyblad is a policy advisor in global governance and development. Currently serving as a program specialist for policy and strategy with the United Nations Development Program, he previously held research appointments at Harvard University, Oxford's Changing Character of War Centre, and the European Council on Foreign Relations. As a development practitioner, he has also served in managerial and advisory roles with the development services of the European Union and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. His research has featured in several chapters of the edited volume Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance , the journal Territory, Politics, Governance , and the Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations . Christopher holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he attended as a Clarendon Scholar and concurrently held the Peter J. Braam scholarship in International Development at Merton College. |
