Proxy Warriors - The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias

Zusatztext "Proxy Warriors offers a timely! insightful! and often contrarian look at how leaders in developing states use militias! gangs! and other substate actors. Ahram offers important findings that explain states' different approaches and provides fresh policy prescriptions for the international community to manage! or at times live with! this difficult problem." Informationen zum Autor Ariel I. Ahram is an Assistant Professor in the School of International and Area Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext The book explains why some Third World states have centralized, conventional military forces while others rely on militias, paramilitaries, and other non-state actors using detailed case studies of Indonesia, Iraq, and Iran and offers policy recommendations for dealing with weak states based on this analysis. Zusammenfassung The book explains why some Third World states have centralized, conventional military forces while others rely on militias, paramilitaries, and other non-state actors using detailed case studies of Indonesia, Iraq, and Iran and offers policy recommendations for dealing with weak states based on this analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Ahram, Ariel I. Ahram, Ariel I. (Ariel Ira) Ahram, Ahram Ariel
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2011
• EAN: 9780804773584
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7358-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law