Global security upheaval [[electronic resource] ] : armed nonstate groups usurping state stability functions / / Robert Mandel

• Autore: Mandel Robert <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, CA, : Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 355/.033
• Soggetto topico: Security, International; Non-state actors (International relations); Political stability
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Analytical Focus -- 2. The Nature of Stability -- 3. The Nature of Armed Nonstate Groups -- 4. The Transformation in Global Security Control -- 5. Case Studies of Armed Nonstate Group Control Attempts -- 6. Analysis of Case Study Patterns -- 7. Private Coercive Stability Promotion Complexities -- 8. Conclusion: Policy Guidelines -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability. By assessing recent real-world trends, Mandel reveals that areas exist where it makes little sense to rely on state governments for stability, and that attempts to bolster such governments to promote stability often prove futile. He demonstrates how armed nonstate groups can sometimes provide local stability better than states, and how power-sharing arrangements between states and armed nonstate groups may sometimes be viable. He concludes that these trends in the international setting call for major shifts in our understanding of what constitutes stable governance—proposing that we adopt a fluid "emergent actor" approach. And he calls for significant deviation from standard policy responses to the opportunities and dangers posed by nontraditional sources of national authority.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global security upheaval
• ISBN: 0-8047-8649-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810539903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II