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Violent Non-state Actors in World Politics
Mulaj
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Description for Violent Non-state Actors in World Politics
Paperback. Presents a study of Violent Non-State Actors (VNSA), groups who carry out atrocities such as the 2008 attacks on Mumbai. This book maps the relationship between VNSAs and the state, following the political, economic, and social processes that contribute to the emergence of these groups. Editor(s): Mulaj, Klejda. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
The 2008 attacks on Mumbai were carried out by a Pakistani militant group known as Lashkar i-Taiba, termed a 'non-state actor' by Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari. In most cases, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) rise as a state fails, resorting to organized attacks as a brutally effective method for advancing their political aims and other goals. Currently operating in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan, VNSAs can take the form of national liberation movements confronting an occupying force; insurgents engaged in protracted political and military struggles that eat at the power and legitimacy of a ruling government; terrorists who use threats or ... Read more
The 2008 attacks on Mumbai were carried out by a Pakistani militant group known as Lashkar i-Taiba, termed a 'non-state actor' by Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari. In most cases, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) rise as a state fails, resorting to organized attacks as a brutally effective method for advancing their political aims and other goals. Currently operating in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan, VNSAs can take the form of national liberation movements confronting an occupying force; insurgents engaged in protracted political and military struggles that eat at the power and legitimacy of a ruling government; terrorists who use threats or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849040174
SKU
V9781849040174
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About Mulaj
Klejda Mulaj is lecturer in International Relations and Leverhulme Fellow in Ethno-national Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter. She is the author of The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing: Nation-State Building and Provision of In/Security in the Twentieth-Century Balkans.
Reviews for Violent Non-state Actors in World Politics
'High quality. The case study chapters are written by leading experts in the fields, and are consistently fascinating.'
Dr Jan Selby, Sussex University
Dr Jan Selby, Sussex University