The New Dogs of War : : Nonstate Actor Violence in International Politics / / Ward Thomas.
As Ward Thomas details in The New Dogs of War, in many countries militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments, while in some war zones private contractors perform missions previously reserved for uniformed troops. Most ominously, terrorist organizations with global...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Fall and Rise of Nonstate Violence
- 2. Coherence and Contestation: Explaining International Normative Change
- 3. Partisans, Liberators, and Militias: Normative Change and the Legitimization of Nonstate Violence
- 4. One Man’s Freedom Fighter?: Normative Change and the Geopolitical Construction of Terrorism
- 5. From Soldiers of Fortune to Fortune 500: Normative Contestation and the Return of Entrepreneurial Violence
- 6. What’s at Stake?: The Implications of Nonstate Actor Violence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index