Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the crisis of power and reformations of the state in g lobalizing realities / Bruce Kapferer and Bjrn Enge Bertelsen -- The mi litary-industrial complex and the crisis of U.S. capital / June Nash -- Post-Soviet formation of the Russian state and the war in Chechnya: ex ploring the chaotic form of sovereignty / Jakob Rigi -- Market forces, political violence, and war: the end of nation-states, the rise of ethn ic and global sovereignties? / Caroline Ifeka -- Rebel ravages in Bundi bugyo, Uganda's forgotten district / Kirsten Alnaes -- Fear of the midn ight knock: state sovereignty and internal enemies in Uganda / Sverker Finnstrom -- The shepherd's staff and the AK-47: pastoralism and handgu ns in Karamoja, Uganda / Frode Storaas -- The sovereign as savage: the pathos of ethno-nationalist passion / Christopher Taylor -- The paramil itary function of transparency: Guatemala and Colombia / Staffan Lofvin g -- Sorcery and death squads: transformations of state, sovereignty, a nd violence in postcolonial Mozambique / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen -- Collec tive violence and counter-state building: Algeria 1954-62 / Rasmus Alen ius Boserup -- Malignant organisms: continuities of state-run violence in rural Liberia / Mats Utas -- Israel's wall and the logic of encystat ion: sovereign exception or wild sovereignty? / Glenn Bowman.