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Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.
List of contents
From State to Non-State Actors: The Rise of Security Governance; E.Krahmann Civil War Mercenaries and PMCs; E.Krahmann Peacebuilding and the Politics of Aid: New Dilemmas of Cooperation Between Governments and NGOs; L.Gerstbauer Strange Bedfellows in Contemporary Security Governance: Issues to Consider in the Interaction Between Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations and International Provate Security Companies; C.Spearin Terrorism and Transnational Crime Transnational Crime State Led Prohibition Regimes and the Challenge of Dismantling Illicit Non-State Networks; M.Kenney HIV/AIDS: An International Security Issue?; S.Elbe NGOs and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in the Developing World; C.Sheehan Small Arms The Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons; M.Bourne The Role of Transnational Advocacy in Shaping the Conventional Arms Regime of the European Union; H.Anders Conclusion; E.Krahmann
About the author
ELKE KRAHMANN is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol, UK.
Summary
Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.
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"Viewing non-state forces appropriately as capable of both degrading and enhancing global stability, this insightful volume is useful theoretically and empirically in broadening commonly-held notions of security and governance."
- Robert Mandel, Lewis & Clark College
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"Viewing non-state forces appropriately as capable of both degrading and enhancing global stability, this insightful volume is useful theoretically and empirically in broadening commonly-held notions of security and governance."
- Robert Mandel, Lewis & Clark College
