Armed Groups and the Balance of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armed Groups and the Balance of Power write by Anthony Vinci. This book was released on 2008-09-09. Armed Groups and the Balance of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new book provides a framework for understanding the international relations of armed groups, including terrorist organizations, insurgencies and warlords, which play an increasingly important role in the international system. Specifically, the book argues that such groups can be understood as taking part in the balance of power with states and other armed groups, as they are empirically sovereign non-state actors that are motivated by the pursuit of power and exist as part of an anarchic, self-help system. This radically new approach offers a renewed conceptualization of Neorealism, and provides new insights into debates about sovereignty, non-state actors, new wars, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency. The approach is illustrated through case studies on Somali warlords, the security complex between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), Sudan and Uganda, as well as Al Qaeda. The book provides insights into such issues as how non-state actors can be integrated into structural theories of international relations, and also offers pragmatic methodologies for the foreign policy or military practitioner, such as how to best deter terrorists.
Ordering Violence
Ordering Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordering Violence write by Paul Staniland. This book was released on 2021-12-15. Ordering Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics—bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework—to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed by armed groups drive their responses and interactions. Staniland combines a unique new dataset of state-group armed orders in India, Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar, and Sri Lanka with detailed case studies from the region to explore when and how this model of threat perception provides insight into patterns of repression, collusion, and mutual neglect across nearly seven decades. Instead of straightforwardly responding to the material or organizational power of armed groups, Staniland finds, regimes assess how a group's politics align with their own ideological projects. Explaining, for example, why governments often use extreme repression against weak groups even while working with or tolerating more powerful armed actors, Ordering Violence provides a comprehensive overview of South Asia's complex armed politics, embedded within an analytical framework that can also speak broadly beyond the subcontinent.
The Use of Force
The Use of Force - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Use of Force write by Robert J. Art. This book was released on 2009. The Use of Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First edition published in 2003.
Rebel Governance in Civil War
Rebel Governance in Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebel Governance in Civil War write by Ana Arjona. This book was released on 2015-10-22. Rebel Governance in Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.
US Vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power
US Vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook US Vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power write by Sajjad Shaukat. This book was released on 2005. US Vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
