Warlords Rising: Confronting Violent Non-state ActorsViolent non-state actors (VNSA) often serve a destabilizing role in nearly every humanitarian and political crisis faced by the international community. As non-state armed groups gain greater access to resources and networks through global interconnectivity, they have come to dominate the terrain of illegal trade in drugs, guns, and humans. Warlords Rising arms those confronting the mounting challenge by delivering an innovative, interdisciplinary framework of analysis designed to improve understanding of non-state adversaries in order to affect their development and performance. Examining the utility of traditional theories of deterrence and warfighting in light of the insight gained through this interdisciplinary approach, the authors elevate the powerful role of environmental shaping in group development, recast deterrence in ecological terms, and lay out a strategy to defeat non-state adversaries if necessary. Whether the goal is preventing, coercing, or conquering, the framework of analysis presented here is designed to be universal, allowing for structured analysis across regions, types, and functions of non-state actors and providing the decision maker and policy maker witha variety of modes and methods of intervention. |
Contents
Warlords Rising | 1 |
Roots of Violence | 22 |
Violent Transformations | 53 |
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Warlords Rising: Confronting Violent Non-state Actors Troy S. Thomas,Stephen D. Kiser,William D. Casebeer No preview available - 2005 |
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ability action activities Afghanistan al Qaida analysis Aral Sea Asian attacks Available behavior bombings Central Asia Clausewitz coercion cognitive sub-system collective violence conflict corruption create critical cycle deterrence disrupt drug dynamic economic effects emerge environment environmental ethnic example exist Ferghana Valley fighting force framework functions ganization gestation global goals groups growth guerrilla guerrilla warfare Ibid identity cleavages identity entrepreneur individuals inputs insight intelligence International Islamic January Jihad Karakalpaks Karakalpakstan Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Kyrgyzstan militant religious movements military mobilization Muslim negative entropy niche construction open systems operations organizational organized crime Osama bin Laden outputs political population psychology Qaida r-selected recruitment region relationships resource scarcity roots of violence Sendero social Soviet stakeholder structure support sub-system tactics Tajik Tajikistan terrorism terrorist tion tional transnational Turkmenistan Uighar Uzbek Uzbekistan variables Violent Non-State Actors VNSA VNSA's Wahhabi warfare warlords
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