1. Introduction Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir and Thomas Callaghy; Part I.
Historical Dimensions and Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Networks, moral
discourse and history Frederick Cooper; 3. Defining transboundary
connections: international arenas, translocal networks and transterritorial
deployments Robert Latham; 4. Producing local politics: governance,
representation and non-state organization in Africa Ronald Kassimir; Part
II. Transboundary Networks, States and Civil Societies: 5. Networks and
governance in Africa: innovation in debt regime Thomas Callaghy; 6. When
networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya Hans Peter Schmitz; 7.
Global, state and local intersections: a study of power, authority and
conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities CyrilI Obi; Part III. Political
Economies of Violence and Authority: 8. How sovereignty matters: global
markets and political economy of local politics in weak studies William
Reno; 9. Post-modern warfare in Sierra Leone? Recovering the local and
social in global-local constructions of violence Paul Richards and Caspar
Fithen; 10. New sovereigns? The frontiers of wealth creation and regulatory
authority in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman; 11. Out of the shadows Carolyn
Nordstrom; Part IV. Reflections: 12. Authority and interventions in world
politics Michael Barnett; 13. Toward a new research agenda Ronald Kassimir
and Robert Latham.
