TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krause, Keith, ed.
TI  - Armed groups and contemporary conflicts: challenging the Weberian state/ 
SN  - 9780415574570
U1  - 355 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire : 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Irregular warfare
KW  - National security
KW  - Politics and war
KW  - War and society
KW  - Non-state actors (International relations)
KW  - HISTORY / Military / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
N1  -  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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