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

Zusatztext " Proxy Warriors makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the devolution of state control over violence to non-state actors within the state. It demonstrates that! contrary to received wisdom! decentralization need not undermine a state's internal security or even the ability of a state to guard against external threats. Thus! late-developing states may well have workable alternative institutional arrangement to those of the developed world." 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2011
• EAN: 9780804773591
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7359-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education