Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that the state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.
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"Viewing non-state forces appropriately as capable of both degrading and enhancing global stability, this insightful volume is useful theoretically and empirically in broadening commonly-held notions of security and governance."
--Robert Mandel, Lewis & Clark College
--Robert Mandel, Lewis & Clark College
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“Viewing non-state forces appropriately as capable of both degrading and enhancing global stability, this insightful volume is useful theoretically and empirically in broadening commonly-held notions of security and governance.”
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brokering controls, illicit recipients, specific policy elements, arming patterns, state security sectors, conventional weapons control, humanitarian alibi, peacebuilding mandates, nongovernmental advocates, peacebuilding work, nongovernmental advocacy, kingpin strategy, contemporary security threats, targeting money laundering, transnational security threats, arms brokering, security governance, export criteria, trafficking enterprises, private military companies, arms brokers, wheel networks, human security issue, laundering measures, security actors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold War, New York, Small Arms Survey, United Nations, World Vision, South Africa, European Union, Security Council, Sierra Leone, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, Lynne Rienner, Catholic Relief Services, Department of Defense, International Alert, National Intelligence Council, Latin America, Eastern Europe, European Communities, World Bank, Common Position, Department of State, Elke Krahmann, Middle East, Christopher Spearin New!
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brokering controls, illicit recipients, specific policy elements, arming patterns, state security sectors, conventional weapons control, humanitarian alibi, peacebuilding mandates, nongovernmental advocates, peacebuilding work, nongovernmental advocacy, kingpin strategy, contemporary security threats, targeting money laundering, transnational security threats, arms brokering, security governance, export criteria, trafficking enterprises, private military companies, arms brokers, wheel networks, human security issue, laundering measures, security actors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold War, New York, Small Arms Survey, United Nations, World Vision, South Africa, European Union, Security Council, Sierra Leone, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, Lynne Rienner, Catholic Relief Services, Department of Defense, International Alert, National Intelligence Council, Latin America, Eastern Europe, European Communities, World Bank, Common Position, Department of State, Elke Krahmann, Middle East, Christopher Spearin New!
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- The Cold War (Cambridge Perspectives in History) by Mike Sewell on 4 pages
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- Countering the New Terrorism by Ian O Lesser on page 90, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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