Warlord Competition - 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 Warlord Competition write by Stergios Skaperdas. This book was released on 2001. Warlord Competition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Warlord Survival
Warlord Survival - 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 Warlord Survival write by Romain Malejacq. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Warlord Survival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen. Malejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim). He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in Warlord Survival is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence. Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.
Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan
Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan - 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 Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan write by Dipali Mukhopadhyay. This book was released on 2014-02-13. Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that Afghani warlords can under certain conditions become effective governors on behalf of the state.
Warlord Politics and African States
Warlord Politics and African States - 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 Warlord Politics and African States write by William Reno. This book was released on 1998. Warlord Politics and African States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reno (political science, Florida International U.) examines alternative, usually clandestine, economic systems, arguing that such phenomena as tax evasion, illicit production, smuggling, and protection rackets have become widespread and integral to building political authority in parts of Africa. He also clarifies the limitations of the liberalizing reforms of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by detailing how weak- state and warlord political economies restrict and manipulate bank and IMF prescriptions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century
War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century - 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 War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century write by Mark T. Berger. This book was released on 2013-09-13. War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy practitioners, who tend to adopt a technocratic approach to the crisis of development and violence. This book brings together a wide range of contributions aimed at investigating different aspects of the history of development and violence, and its implications for contemporary efforts to consolidate the development-security nexus. From environmental concerns, through vigilante citizenship, to the legacies of armed conflicts during and after decolonization, the different chapters reconstruct the contradictory history of development and critically engage contemporary responses and their implications for social and political analyses. In examining violence and insecurity in relation to core organising principles of world politics the contributors engage the problems associated with the nation state and the inter-state system and underlying assumptions of the promises of progress. The book offers a range of perspectives on the contradictions of development, and on how domination, violence and resistance have been conceived. At the same time it exemplifies the relevance of alternative methodological and conceptual approaches to contemporary challenges of development. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
