Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order
The insight that nonstate violence can reshape the global order and drive state transformation is at the heart of Mark Shirk’s new book, Making War on the World. The post Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order appeared first on Ethics & International Affairs.
Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order, Mark Shirk (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), 256 pp., cloth $140, paperback $35, eBook $34.99.
Accessing the impacts of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it was common to read that al-Qaeda’s violence has altered the course of world affairs. Many observers noted specifically how the attacks prompted states to reexamine and reassert their powers as sovereigns. This insight, that nonstate violence can reshape the global order and drive state transformation, is at the heart of Mark Shirk’s new book, Making War on the World. Shirk asks both how and when “transboundary processes,” or “those that flow through and across boundaries” (p. 11), drive state transformation. His answer is novel.
