Violent non-state actors in world politics / edited by Klejda Mulaj
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- xxv, 475 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Mulaj, Kledja, 1969-
- Contents
- Introduction: Violent non-state actors: exploring their state relations, legitimation, and operationality / Klejda Mulaj -- Fragmentation of sovereignty and violent non-state actors in Colombia / Nazih Richani -- From VNSAs to constitutional politicians: militarism and politics in the Irish Republican Army / Jonathan Tonge -- The persistence of nationalist terrorism: the case of ETA / Ignacio Sánchez-Cuena -- The Kosovo Liberation Army and the intricacies of legitimacy / Klejda Mulaj -- The rise and fall of militant Islamic groups in Egypt / Hassanein Tawfik Ibrahim -- Force of arms and Hizbullah's staying power in precarious Lebanon / Judith Palmer Harik -- Hamas and the prospects of de-radicalization / Omar Ashour -- Armed groups and fragmentation and globalization in Iraq / Eric Herring -- Al Qaeda: from the near to the far enemy and back (1988-2008) / Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou -- The role of sub-national actors in Afghanistan / Amin Saikal -- Militia formation and the 'nationalization' of local conflict in Liberia / Morten Bøås -- Understanding the character and politics of the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone / Kwesi Aning -- UNITA's insurgency lifecycle in Angola / Assis Malaquias -- Violent non-state actors in Sudan / William Reno -- Non-state actors and the role of violence in stateless Somalia / Ken Menkhaus -- Libration Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): failed quest for a 'homeland' / Syed Rifaat Hussain -- Private military firms: the profit side of VNSAs / Peter W. Singer -- Non-state actors in conflict: a challenge for policy and for law / Alyson J.K. Bailes and Daniel Nord.
- Summary
- ""This study of violent non-state actors is of a truly sweeping order that should be appreciated for its profusion of ideas. The individual authors, all experts in their respective fields, lay out the problems of analysis with the fullest respect for their complexity and state their case with remarkable clarity."" "Christopher Coker, London School of Economics" ""A high quality collection of essays. Case studies are written by leading experts in the field and are consistently fascinating."" "Jan Selby, Sussex University" "The 2008 attacks on Mumbai were carried out by a Pakistani militant group known as Lashkar i-Taiba, termed a "non-state actor" by Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari. In most cases, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) rise as a state fails, resorting to brutally effective, organized attacks to advance political aims and other goals." "Currently operating in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan, VNSAs can take the form of national liberation movements confronting an occupying force, insurgents engaged in protracted political and military struggles that chip away at a government's legitimacy, terrorists who threaten violence to effect political change, irregular yet recognizable armed forces working within an ungoverned area or failing state, and mercenary militias, such as those used by Shell or army-loaded units operating in the Niger Delta." "The essays in this volume follow the political, economic, and social processes behind the emergence of VNSAs and the way in which they manipulate crises. Contributors isolate the point at which violence becomes desirable to the non-state actor and explore how this change alters the relationship between VNSAs and the state, and they track the influence of VNSAs on the rebuilding of the very governments they tear down. One of the first resources to describe these groups in depth, this volume decodes the internal structure of VNSAs, their recruitment strategies and ideologies their characteristics and partnerships, and their fundamental similarities and differences."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780231701204 (alk. paper)
0231701209 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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