Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts (eBook, ePUB)

Challenging the Weberian State
Redaktion: Krause, Keith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book broadens our understanding of armed groups and their origins, evolution, violent dynamics, and relations with state power, through both conceptual analysis and case studies.

This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317987086
• Artikelnr.: 58399704

Autorenporträt

Keith Krause is Professor, and Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups Keith
Krause and Jennifer Milliken 2. Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined
Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the
Modern World Diane E. Davis 3. With the State against the State? The
Formation of Armed Groups Klaus Schlichte 4. Grasping the Financing and
Mobilization Cost of Armed Groups: A New Perspective on Conflict Dynamics
Achim Wennmann 5. From Social Movement to Armed Group: A Case Study from
Nigeria Jennifer M. Hazen 6. Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central
American Case Dennis Rodgers and Robert Muggah 7. The Role of Non-State
Actors in 'Community-Based Policing' - An Exploration of the Arbakai
(Tribal Police) in South-Eastern Afghanistan Susanne Schmeidl and Masood
Karokhail 8. Staging Society: Sources of Loyalty in the Angolan UNITA
Teresa Koloma Beck 9. Explaining Patterns of Violence in Collapsed States
William Reno 10. The Changing Ownership of War: States, Insurgencies and
Technology Aaron Karp