1st Edition
Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts Challenging the Weberian State
Abstracts of Article Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups - Keith Krause and Jennifer Milliken 2. Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World - Diane E. Davis 3. With the State against the State? The Formation of Armed Groups - Klaus Schlichte 4. The Changing Ownership of War: States, Insurgencies and Technology - Aaron Karp 5. Grasping the financing and mobilisation cost of armed groups: A new perspective on conflict dynamics - Achim Wennmann 6. From Social Movement to Armed Group: A Case Study from Nigeria - Jennifer M. Hazen 7. Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case - Dennis Rodgers, Robert Muggah 8. 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 9. Staging Society: Sources of Loyalty in the Angolan UNITA - Teresa Koloma Beck 10. Explaining Patterns of Violence in Collapsed States - William Reno
Biography
Keith Krause is Professor, and Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
