{"id":60994,"date":"2023-05-08T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espol-lille.eu\/?p=60994"},"modified":"2023-09-15T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T08:24:49","slug":"grzybowski-j-2023-horror-vacui-daesh-and-the-inter-territory-effect-geopolitics-pp-1-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espol-lille.eu\/en\/grzybowski-j-2023-horror-vacui-daesh-and-the-inter-territory-effect-geopolitics-pp-1-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Grzybowski, J. (2023) \u2018Horror vacui: Da\u2019esh and the inter-territory effect\u2019, Geopolitics, pp. 1\u201327."},"content":{"rendered":"
The \u2018Islamic State in Iraq and Syria\u2019, or Da\u2019esh<\/i>, claimed territorial control and declared itself a state and Caliphate, but scholars disagree on the quality of these claims. Some argue that Da\u2019esh<\/i> really was a state, others reject this as propaganda of a non-state actor, and still others highlight that Da\u2019esh<\/i> challenged the international order as a whole. This article combines the notions of the \u2018territory effect\u2019 and \u2018inter-territory\u2019 to explain why the (self-)presentation of Da\u2019esh<\/i> appeared as a challenge to the (non-)state dichotomy of the modern international and its territorial underpinnings. While contesting the inter-territorial compartmentalisation of the state system, Da\u2019esh<\/i> projected a counter-territoriality beyond this system. The resulting horror vacui and collective campaign against Da\u2019esh<\/i> in turn shed light on an inter-territory effect of assuming and re-enacting contiguous state territories in a globally encompassing system of states, which thus locates and contains \u2013 but also enables \u2013 violence within states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n