Militants, criminals, and warlords : the challenge of local governance in an age of disorder /

Felbab-Brown, Vanda

Militants, criminals, and warlords : the challenge of local governance in an age of disorder / Challenge of local governance in an age of disorder Vanda Felbab-Brown, Harold Trinkunas, Shadi Hamid. - Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2017 - x, 177 pages ; 24 cm - Geopolitics in the 21st century . - Geopolitics in the 21st century. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local orders in an age of international disorder -- Public goods and public bads : governance and local order -- Second wind : Taliban coercion and governance in Afghanistan -- The Islamic State and the problem of governance -- A long war : competing to govern Colombia's local orders -- Men with guns : criminal governance in Latin America -- Local orders reconsidered

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Local government.
Paramilitary forces.
insurgency--developing countries--internal conflicts--terrorism--islam--criminality--national security--sovereignty--armed conflicts--Colombia--Afghanistan

warlordism transnational crime paramilitary forces local government failed states