Nomad-state relationships in international relations: before and after borders
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations -- Definitions and Framework -- Framework for the Volume -- References -- Chapter 2: Nomads and States in Comparative Perspective -- Nomads and States: Some Definitions -- Cultural Ecology of Nomadic Pastoralists -- Levels of Social Complexity -- Political Structures -- East Africa -- Arabia -- Iranian Plateau -- Mongolia -- The State Victorious: The End of Nomadic Power -- References -- Chapter 3: The Anti-Nomadic Bias of Political Theory -- Nature: Political Animals -- God: The Great Leviathan -- History: The Rude Becoming Polished -- Nature, God and History -- References -- Chapter 4: Before and After Borders: The Nomadic Challenge to Sovereign Territoriality -- Introduction -- States and Pre-State Actors -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Standard of Civilization, Nomadism and Territoriality in Nineteenth-Century International Society -- Introduction -- The Standard of Civilization, Nomads and Territoriality -- The Settlement of the Steppe -- Russian Oriental Discourses Around Nomadism, Territoriality and Civilization -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Frontier Energetics: The Value of Pastoralist Border Crossings in Eastern Africa -- Introduction -- How and Where Borders Were Demarcated in East Africa -- An Entropic Theory of Borders -- The Energetics of Frontiers in Eastern Africa -- The Kenyan/Ethiopian Frontier -- The Kenyan/Tanzanian Frontier -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Seeing the Nomads Like a State: Sweden and the Sámi at the Turn of the Last Century -- Introduction -- Research on Swedish Sámi Politics: Chronologies and Themes -- Reaching for Souls, Then Land -- Lapp skall vara Lapp: Defining the Sámi -- Sámi Schooling and Housing -- Leviathan 2.0.