ABSTRACT
This chapter maps out the grey area between domestic, internal affairs and foreign, external affairs. As such, it represents the frontier of the state, where domestic policy and foreign policy meet, and the point at which it connects with other states and territories. Within this zone is embedded a recognition threshold whereby states receive international recognition confirming their right to be a part of the international system of states, while peoples and nations receive recognition of their right to self-determination. Issues to be discussed in this chapter include: the relationship between sovereign states and national liberation, secessionist and separatist movements; the role of the military in peacekeeping, intervention, and humanitarian aid; state-making and state collapse and the increasing importance of fragile, failed, shadow, and rogue states in the area of international security; the rise of warlordism, mercenarism, and private armies, i.e., the privatization of security; and the relationship between war, colonialism, and imperialism and the transnational flow of peoples, including questions related to expulsion, deportation, refugees, exiles, and asylum-seekers. This zone highlights the difficulty of clearly distinguishing between internal and external security, as well as national and human security.
