Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity. Where non-state actors have received considerable attention amongst political scientists in recent years, those that predate the statenomadshave not. States, however, tend to take nomads quite seriously both as a material and ideational threat. Through this volume, the authors rectify this by introducing nomads as a distinct topic of study. It examines why states treat nomads as a threat and it looks particularly at how nomads push back against state intrusions. Ultimately, this exciting volume introduces a new topic of study to IR theory and politics, presenting a detailed study of nomads as non-state actors.

Present nomads a distinct topic to study among non-state actors Explores nomadism from a distinctly political, IR perspective Examines the challenges nomads pose to states

Autorentext
Jamie Levin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations.- 2. Nomads and States in Comparative Perspective.- 3. The Anti-Nomadic Bias of Political Theory.- 4. Before and After Borders: The Nomadic Challenge to Sovereign Territoriality.- 5. Standard of Civilization, Nomadism and Territoriality in Nineteenth Century International Society.- 6. Frontier Energetics: The Value of Pastoralist Border Crossings in Eastern Africa.- 7. Seeing the Nomads like a State: Sweden and the Sámi at the Turn of the Last Century.- 8. African Community-Based Conservancies: Innovative Governance for Whom?.- 9. In Limbo of Spatial Control, Rights and Recognitions: The Negev Bedouin and the State of Israel.- 10. Imperial Chinese Relations with Nomadic Groups.- 11. On Being Orang Suku Laut in the Malay World.- 12. From Gypsies to Romanies: Identity, Cultural Autonomy, Political Sovereignty and (the Search for a) Trans-territorial State.- 13. International Relations and Migration: Mobility as Norm rather than Exception.