Chapter 1 (introduction) The contingency of the war-state-sovereignty triad. Updating a canonical debate.- Part I: Revisiting the Link Between War, State and Sovereignty.- Chapter 2 Is War still an Expression of State Sovereignty? Multidisciplinary round-table.- Chapter 3 Vladimir Putin's Territorial Trap. What the Invasion of Ukraine reveals about the Contemporary War-Sovereignty Nexus.- Chapter 4 The Omnipresent Absent. The State at the Centre of the War-Sovereignty Dialectic.

- Chapter 5 The Failed Gamble of the 1920s. Sovereignty without War.- Chapter 6 Political-military relations. Civil Supremacy under the test of Sovereignty.- Part II: Case Studies of Contested and Renegotiated Sovereignty.- Chapter 7 Security and Regional Integration through a Maritime Lens. Shared Sovereignty and Non-Cooperation in the Inter-American Region Chapter 8 When the "war on terror" undermines the sovereignty of fragile, failing and failed states.- Chapter 9 De Facto sovereignty andmultilateral sanctions for a return to constitutional order in a context of regional armed conflict.

The case of Mali.- Chapter 10 New Spaces of Contested Sovereignty.- Chapter 11 Operational efficiency challenged by industrial sovereignty: the uncertainties of "participatory" innovation.- Chapter 12 Foreign military bases and the sovereignty of local communities. The case of Poland.- Chapter 13 (conclusion): War and sovereignty: "words that go together well" for an interdisciplinary approach.