State and nonstate associated gangs credible "midwives of new social orders" Max G. Manwaring

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Carlisle, PA Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College [2009]Description: viii, 71 pISBN:
  • 9781584873907
  • 1-58487-390-6
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: This monograph explores the complex protean character and hegemonic role of gangs operating as state and nonstate surrogates in the contemporary asymmetric and irregular global security arena. Gangs come in different types with different motives, and with different modes of action. Examples include Venezuela's institutionalized "popular militias," Colombia's devolving paramilitary criminal or warrior bands (bandas criminales), and al-Qaeda's loosely organized networks of propaganda-agitator gangs operating in Spain and elsewhere in Western Europe.
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SIPRI Library and Documentation 323.27 Manwaring Available G09/1118

"May 2009."

This monograph explores the complex protean character and hegemonic role of gangs operating as state and nonstate surrogates in the contemporary asymmetric and irregular global security arena. Gangs come in different types with different motives, and with different modes of action. Examples include Venezuela's institutionalized "popular militias," Colombia's devolving paramilitary criminal or warrior bands (bandas criminales), and al-Qaeda's loosely organized networks of propaganda-agitator gangs operating in Spain and elsewhere in Western Europe.

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