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Global Security Upheaval: Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions

Global Security Upheaval: Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions

Mandel, Robert

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0804784973
ISBN13: 9780804784979
Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
Published: Apr 17 2013
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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