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Résumé Si les aspects géographiques de la « guerre à la terreur » ont déjà été traités, ses aspects proprement territoriaux sont moins souvent abordés. Cet article traite de la relation entre territoire et terreur sous trois angles : d'abord, la relation entre les camps d'entraînement terroristes et l'absence de pouvoir souverain sur le territoire en certains endroits est examinée à la lumière de l'idée d'« espace d'exception » développée par Agamben ; ensuite, il s'agit d'interroger la présentation d'Al-Qaïda et du militantisme islamiste plus généralement comme organisations déterritorialisées, en insistant sur la dimension territoriale de leurs opérations. Enfin, on se penche sur les réactions territoriales, en prenant en compte notamment la façon dont la notion de droit international d'intégrité territoriale, dans son double sens de préservation territoriale et de souveraineté territoriale, subit des atteintes croissantes. Des exemples sont pris en Afghanistan, en Irak, et plus particulièrement autour des événements récents au Liban, afin d'illustrer ce point.

This essay uses the war on Iraq and in particular the legal advice of the British Attorney General to explore two tensions. The first is between Blair's foreign policy with its 'ethical dimension' and call for humanitarian intervention by the international community and the project of the neo-conservatives in the US. The second is in the notion of territorial integrity, which means both the idea of territorial preservation and that within this territory a state is sovereign. The war on Iraq, which violated territorial sovereignty, was fought against a backdrop of preserving the existing territorial settlement, especially regarding the Kurds. While Blair and the neo-conservatives share an argument against territorial sovereignty as an unconditioned absolute, and hold a belief in the need for territorial stability, their positions differ on the mechanisms needed. Blair strove for an internationalist position, the neo-conservatives argue for US exceptionalism. Ultimately though, faced with a decision, Blair joined the US in violating a sovereign state's territorial integrity without international support. Adapted from the source document.

This article looks at emergent challenges to the sanctity of international borders. It first provides a brief discussion of international law on the issues of uti possidetis & territorial integrity. It then examines challenges to these ideas that have emerged in recent years through the notion of contingent sovereignty & its relation to earlier calls for humanitarian intervention & current discussions around reform of the United Nations. In contrast the other side of the coin is the notion of earned sovereignty, where new states can enjoy transitional paths to independence or secession. The former has enjoyed much more international support, but both ways of rethinking the notion of sovereignty have important territorial implications. The article concludes by raising questions about this relation & the question of borders more generally. Adapted from the source document.