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Александр Филиппов, Наиль Фархатдинов
От редакции / Editorial

One and a half years ago we announced the first special issue of the Russian Sociological Review “Borders: Merging, Emerging, Emergent.” Three words echoing each other expressed exactly what we aimed to say: borders in the modern world have become less firm, they have undergone changes, and new borders have emerged, sometimes suddenly and unexpectedly. The new borderless world envisioned by the proponents of globalization is about to transform, at least partially, into a seemingly more familiar world of politically bordered territories, as if social evolution took another, backward step. We missed two important words in our tripartite slogan, and they emerged spontaneously in the papers we collected and published. The first word was “contested” and the second one was “war.” Borders, especially new political borders between territorial units would be contested and even destroyed during wars. The reasons are obvious: new borders might often not be recognized and legitimated by international treaties, and might not be well-embedded in any political geography as a common culture of spatial representations and the images of political landscapes.

However, the notions of borders and wars bring different questions and different themes, and the second special issue of the Russian Sociological Review goes beyond complementing the first. Announcing our second special issue we emphasized both the continuity and novelty of what we aimed to achieve:

Despite globalization, it is often assumed that the self-organization of society takes place within the secure borders of national states. We have to abandon this assumption since there are many instances of hybrid situations in the contemporary world. Examples of undeclared wars, terror, the strengthening of secret intelligence services, coups d’état, and revolutions challenge the traditional oppositions of the external and internal, or war and peace. Warfare and social order have always had an ambiguous relationship. Any warfare causes disorganization and disorder, but it also causes reorganization and the beginning of a new order. Warfare is directly related to the redistribution of resources, border shifts, and the hybridization of social forms. War metaphors permeate civil narratives. The chance of being killed may be higher in a peaceful city than on the front line. Wars now begin without a formal declaration. Peace is often made beyond legal systems, so there is always the possibility of breaching the peace without the fear of being accused of violating agreements, or of being unreasonable. Warfare transgresses the border between the real and virtual worlds, since we live in the age of information-, financial-, hybrid-wars. (Call for Papers)



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