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Les blocages des ronds-points organisés par les « gilets jaunes » en France à partir de l'automne 2018 ont surpris par leur caractère apparemment inédit. Or, l'idée que la perturbation, voire l'interruption de certains flux essentiels à la bonne marche du pays peut être un levier d'action a une longue histoire. En remontant à l'époque où l'État moderne s'est affirmé en Europe, ce livre explore les rapports entre contestation, atteintes aux flux et pouvoir. Issues d'un séminaire organisé à l'Université Bordeaux Montaigne dans le cadre du Centre d'études des mondes moderne et contemporain (CEMMC), les contributions qui le composent posent la question de l'émergence de pensées subversives prenant en compte la dépendance croissante du pouvoir étatique à l'égard de certains flux matériels et immatériels. Si le développement des grands réseaux de transport et de télécommunication au XIXe siècle change la manière de concevoir l'action contestataire, l'ouvrage rappelle que les atteintes aux flux étroitement liés à la souveraineté étatique sont bien antérieures à l'ère industrielle. Cette perspective chronologique large permet d'éclairer l'origine et le sens de pratiques parvenant parfois à déstabiliser l'État, et de nuancer l'idée que les blocages seraient aujourd'hui un instrument de lutte totalement nouveau.

Social conflict --- Civil society --- Political stability --- Subversive activities --- History. --- History

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Le revers de la jaquette indique : "Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship-which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures-overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state. To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, Crippling Leviathan marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia's relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented by Lee is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state. She challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. Lee argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, Crippling Leviathan illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood."

Political stability. --- Subversive activities. --- Sovereignty, Violation of. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- International relations. --- Stabilité politique. --- Activités subversives. --- État. --- Souveraineté. --- Légitimité (science politique) --- Relations internationales. --- STATE, THE --- POLITICAL STABILITY --- SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

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Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship—which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures—overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state. To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, Crippling Leviathan marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia's relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented by Lee is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state. She challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. Lee argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, Crippling Leviathan illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood.

International relations. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- State, The. --- Authority. --- Sovereignty, Violation of. --- Subversive activities. --- Political stability. --- Statebuilding, Political development, State capacity, Foreign Intervention, Subversion, State Development.

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"Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog waren meer dan 18.000 Belgen actief als inlichtingen- en actieagent. Vanuit de schaduw en in de illegaliteit zetten zij zich in voor sabotage, spionage en inlichtingenverzameling en hielpen zij militairen en burgers ontsnappen naar onbezet gebied. De inzet van dit 'schaduwleger' zorgde ervoor dat België een 'glazen huis' was voor de regering en de Veiligheid van de Staat in ballingschap in Londen. Daardoor hebben zij een belangrijke bijdrage geleverd aan de geallieerde eindoverwinning. Dit boek vertrekt vanuit de ervaringen van de agenten op het eind van de oorlog. Het bekijkt vervolgens op welke manier de herinnering aan deze agenten en hun acties is geëvolueerd sinds de Bevrijding tot nu. Hun daden en zelfopoffering mogen niet worden vergeten."--Publisher "Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, plus de 18.000 Belges ont oeuvré comme agents de renseignement et d'action. Dans l'ombre et l'illégalité, ces agents ont saboté, espionné et rassemblé des renseignements, et ont aidé des militaires et des citoyens à s'échapper vers les territoires non occupés. Les exploits de cette 'armée de l'ombre' ont fait de la Belgique une 'maison de verre' pour le gouvernement et la Sûreté de l'État en exil à Londres, et ont contribué de façon importante à la victoire des alliés. Ce livre part des expériences des agents à la fin de la guerre et examine ensuite comment la mémoire de ces agents et de leurs actions a évolué depuis la Libération jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Leurs actions et leurs sacrifices ne peuvent être oubliés."--Publisher

Polemology --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 1940-1949 --- Intelligence officers --- Spies --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Agents, Secret --- Intelligencers (Spies) --- Operatives (Spies) --- Secret agents --- Spooks (Spies) --- Spying --- Subversive activities --- Espionage --- Secret service --- Intelligence agents --- Intelligence service --- History --- Underground movements --- Belgium

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Disordered Violence looks at how gender, race and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. Caron Gentry examines the profiles of 8 well-known terrorist actors and looks at the gendered, racial, and sexualised assumptions in how their stories are told.

Terrorism. --- Terrorism --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Social aspects.