The Global Challenge of Militias and Paramilitary Violence

This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today's international security environment. To separate them from other types of violent non-state groups, such as terrorists, guerrillas and insurgents, the author describes militias as local guardians that use violence to fill a variety of political, social and security gaps, which have created vulnerabilities for their particular constituencies.  Although militias are local in orientation, their effects are not contained to particular countries and have only added to the instability in the international system. This book explores how militias contribute to international security issues by furthering state fragility, undermining human rights and democratization, enabling illicit trafficking, prolonging internal conflicts and fostering proxy wars.
 

List of contents

1: Introduction:  Local Guardians with International Effects.- 2:  Group Characteristics of Militias.- 3:  Militias and State Stability.- 4:  Militias, Crime, and Conflict.- 5:  Militias and the Future.

About the author

Paul Rexton Kan is Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College, USA. His work has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes and featured on the websites DefenseOne and Freakanomics.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Rexton Kan
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2019
• EAN: 9783030130152
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3013015-2
• No. of pages: 133
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 220 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 285 g
• Illustrations: VII, 133 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; C, Peace, Conflict Studies, International Relations, Terrorism, armed struggle, Political Science and International Studies, Terrorism, Political Violence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, International humanitarian law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Public international law: humanitarian law