archived issue August, 2009 volume 30, issue 2
Special Issue
Challenging the Weberian State: Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts
Guest Editor: Keith Krause
This issue also can be purchased as a hardback book from Routledge, published in March 2010. For more information, see the Routledge website.
Introduction: The Challenge of Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups
Keith Krause and Jennifer Milliken View Article
Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World
Diane E. Davis View Article
With the State against the State? The Formation of Armed Groups
Klaus Schlichte
The Changing Ownership of War: States, Insurgencies and Technology
Aaron Karp
Financing of Non-state Armed Aroups
Achim Wennmann
How Social Movements Spawn Armed Groups: A Case Study from Nigeria
Jennifer M. Hazen
The Structure and Responses to Central American Gangs
Dennis Rodgers, Robert Muggah, and Chris Stevenson
The Role of Non-state Actors in 'Community-based Policing': Possibilities and Limitations of the Arbakai (Tribal Police) in Southeastern Afghanistan
Susanne Schmeidl and Masood Karokhail
Staging Society: Sources of Loyalty in the Angolan UNITA
Teresa Koloma Beck
Explaining Patterns of Violence in Collapsed States
William Reno