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Description of  Armed Groups: The Twenty-First-Century Threat

1538168634 rar Armed Groups is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to todays security arenaterrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizationsand analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview. Drawing on case studies, histories, and a rich, yet underexplored theoretical literature, this study presents students with the tools to methodically examine these often overlooked, but key drivers of violence in the international system. Additionally, globalization, the privatization of force, and the return of great power competition have altered the security landscape and enhanced armed group threats. These forces have also led to an increasing overlap between conflict and crime, and a growth in the state use of armed group proxies. Coming to terms with armed groupstheir objectives, strategies, internal composition, and the environment that fosters themremains a critical task for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers alike in understanding the changing nature of war. Read more