Unsettled States, Disputed Lands

Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip: disengagement or incorporation? -- Thresholds of state-building and state contraction -- Becoming problematic: breakdown of a hegemonic conception of Ireland -- Where and what is France? Three failures of hegemonic construction -- Patterns of hegemonic change: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria -- The Irish question in British politics, 1886-1922 -- The Algerian question in French politics, 1955-1962 -- Regimes at risk: rescaling the Irish and Algerian questions in Britain and France -- Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip: tracing the status of a changing relationship -- Hegemonic failure and regime crisis in Israel -- A theory of states and territories: extensions and implications.