The unsettledness of the world. Current violent conflicts and global order

Abstract

Political science has only marginally worked on the most recent dynamics of war development in the Middle East and on the African continent. This article suggests an interpretation, based on the “Hamburg approach” to the study of war, which focuses on conflictive modernization processes and institutional legitimacy deficits. Whilst form and incumbency of state domination are at the center of these violent conflicts, their most visible product of the laboratories of multilateral intervention is rather an internationalization of political domination than what liberal approaches label as “global governance”. In order to grasp these changes, political science has to re-think the sociology of the state and to rediscover political violence as a subject of research and theory.53455957