...This chapter examines sovereignty as generator of inconsistent state desire in northeastern Central African Republic. Northeastern CAR occupies a limbo position: formally part of a state, but effectively mostly ignored by centralized administration. In northeastern CAR, people express a strong...

...This chapter discusses aerial sovereignty and uses it as a lens into the “black holes” in international politics created by unrecognized states. Those black holes are ones of information, but also ones of geopolitics and aeropolitics. The chapter looks at the rise and fall of one national airline...