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MILITANTS, CRIMINALS, AND WARLORDS : THE CHALLENGE OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN AN AGE OF DISORDER /

Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia...

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Main Authors: Felbab-Brown, Vanda (Author), Trinkunas, Harold A. (Author), Hamid, Shadi, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2018
Series:Geopolitics in the 21st century
Subjects:
Warlordism and international relations
Local government
Paramilitary forces
Internal security
Insurgency
Transnational crime
Sovereignty
Failed states
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Table of Contents:
  • Local orders in an age of international disorder
  • Public goods and public bads : governance and local order
  • Second wind : Taliban coercion and governance in Afghanistan
  • The Islamic State and the problem of governance
  • A long war : competing to govern Colombia's local orders
  • Men with guns : criminal governance in Latin America
  • Local orders reconsidered

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