Militants, Criminals, and Warlords - Felbab-Brown, Vanda; Trinkunas, Harold; Hamid, Shadi
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Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the only legitimate source of order and provider of public goods in any society. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors that control local territory and render public goods that the nation-state cannot or will not provide. Militants, Criminals, and Warlords takes the reader around the world to areas where state governance has broken down-or never really existed. The vacuum has been filled by insurgent and…mehr

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Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the only legitimate source of order and provider of public goods in any society. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors that control local territory and render public goods that the nation-state cannot or will not provide. Militants, Criminals, and Warlords takes the reader around the world to areas where state governance has broken down-or never really existed. The vacuum has been filled by insurgent and terrorist groups, local gangs, and militias, some with ideological agendas and others focused primarily on economic gain. Many of these actors are eventually accepted by local populations and develop an enduring presence, especially where states are weak or illegitimate. The authors show that the rest of the world has more than a passing interest in these challenges, in part because transnational crime and terrorism may interact, but also because failed states can create dangerous spillover effects, fan regional conflicts, and even threaten the very foundations of the international order. How should the international community respond to local orders dominated by armed nonstate actors? And are local orders that compete with the state necessarily bad? The United States and its allies have generally prioritized the state above all else, while failing to accommodate-or even understand-the local cultural and religious context. From the civil wars of the Middle East and Asia to the streets and prisons of Latin America, this book challenges longstanding approaches to governance and state-building and proposes a different path forward.
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Vanda Felbab-Brown is a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She is also the director of the Brookings project "Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives and UNGASS 2016" and co-director of another Brookings project, "Reconstituting Local Orders." She is an expert on international and internal conflicts and nontraditional security threats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence, and illicit economies. Harold Trinkunas is a nonresident senior fellow in the Latin America Initiative in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, and the associate director for research and senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses on Latin American politics, particularly on issues related to foreign policy, governance, and security. Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World in the Center for Middle East Policy. Hamid served as director of research at the Brookings Doha Center until January 2014. Prior to joining Brookings, he was director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Hamid is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and the vice-chair of POMED's board of directors.