From warlords to statelords : : armed groups and power trajectories in Libya and Yemen /

From warlords to statelords : : armed groups and power trajectories in Libya and Yemen / / edited by Eleonora Ardemagni, Federica Saini Fasanotti ; introduction by Paolo Magri.

Armed groups play a central role in Libya and Yemen. Pervading weak and contested institutions, they have gradually brought their survival, profit and governance strategies under the state umbrella: warlords have become the new lords of the state. Armed groups control most of the energy revenues, cr...

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Ardemagni, Eleonora,
Fasanotti, Federica Sain,
Magri, Paolo,
Place / Publishing House:Milan, Italy : : Ledizioni,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (126 pages) :; maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Paolo Magri - ISPI Executive Vice President
  • 1. Libya and Yemen's warlords: neopatirmonialsm under a new guise. Eleonora Ardemagni - ISPI and Catholic University of Milan
  • 2. The lords of war in the changing geopolitical system. Vanda Felbab-Brown - Brookings Institution
  • 3. Armed groups, oil revenue and energy infrastructure
  • 3.1 Libya's Shadow Statelords: War, Peace and the Predation of the Oil Sector, Anas El-Gomati - Sadeq Institute
  • 3.2 Old Elites and New Armed Groups: The Scramble Over Yemen's Oil Reserves Continues, Ahmed al-Shargabi, Mareike Transfeld - Yemen Policy Center 4. Armed groups, smuggling and illicit trafficking
  • 4.1 The Lifeblood of Libya: Armed Groups' Normalisation of a Thriving Smuggling Economy, Amanda B. Kadlec - King's College London
  • 4.2. Yemen: Militarised Borders Strengthen Smuggling Networks, Ahmed Nagi - Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
  • 5. Libya and Yemen's governance of maritime boundaries
  • 5.1 How Mafiaisation Destabilises Libya's Economy and Migration Control, Tarek Megerisi - European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
  • 5.2 Yemen's Coastal Lords: The Economics of "Multi-Governed" Maritime Boundaries, Eleonora Ardemagni - ISPI and Catholic University of Milan
  • Conclusions: How militias became proto-governments. Federica Saini Fasanotti - ISPI and Brookings Institution
  • About the authors.

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