Armed groups and contemporary conflicts: challenging the Weberian state/
edited by Keith Krause.
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- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2012.
- xiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
A reproduction of Contemporary security policy, vol. 30, issue 2--T.p. verso. Originally published in hardback : 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Non-state armed actors, new imagined communities, and shifting patterns of sovereignty and insecurity in the modern world / Diane E. Davis -- With the state against the state? The formation of armed groups / Klaus Schlichte -- Grasping the financing and mobilization cost of armed groups: a new perspective on conflict dynamics / Achim Wennmann -- From social movement to armed group: a case study from Nigeria / Jennifer M. Hazen -- Gangs as non-state armed groups: the Central American case / Dennis Rodgers and Robert Muggah -- 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 -- Staging society: sources of loyalty in the Angolan UNITA / Teresa Koloma Beck -- Explaining patterns of violence in collapsed states / William Reno -- The changing ownership of war: states, insurgencies and technology / Aaron Karp.
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Irregular warfare. National security. Politics and war. War and society. Non-state actors (International relations) HISTORY / Military / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)