State and Nonstate Associated Gangs

State and Nonstate Associated Gangs
Author: Max G. Manwaring
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 1584873906

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. Motives and actions of these diverse groups are further complicated by their evershifting alliances with insurgents, transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), drug cartels, warlords, governments that want to maintain a plausible denial of aggressive action, and any other state or nonstate actor that might require the services of a mercenary gang organization or surrogate. Lessons derived from these cases demonstrate how gangs might fit into a holistic effort to compel radical political-social change, and illustrate how traditional political-military objectives may be achieved indirectly, rather than directly. These lessons are significant beyond their own domestic political context in that they are harbingers of many of the "wars among the people" that have emerged out of the Cold War, and are taking us kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

The World in Movement

The World in Movement
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004385401

This book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as ‘hybrid-performative diaspora’, ‘transidentities’,‘ hospitality’, ‘belonging’, ‘emotion’, ‘body,’ and ‘desire’. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.

States-Within-States

States-Within-States
Author: P. Kingston
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2004-04-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1403981019

Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - ' states within states ' - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security and development to peoples in the Third World.

Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts

Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts
Author: Keith Krause
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 131798708X

Armed groups operating beyond the state have become the most important actors in most contemporary wars and violent conflicts, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Colombia and Somalia. They come in a dizzying array of forms: some informally linked to the state and state power, others in opposition to the state; some pursuing classic political goals, others primarily predatory and large-scale criminal enterprises. All groups, however, challenge the state’s Weberian monopoly of the legitimate use of force, yet their origins, evolution, violent dynamics, and relations with state power are poorly understood. This interdisciplinary collection includes both conceptual and empirical studies of contemporary armed groups, examining cases in Latin America, Asia and Africa. It brings sociological, political economy, and ethnographic approaches to bear on larger questions including armed groups and the changing nature of warfare, the economic dimensions of their activities, and means of engagement with armed actors. It both broadens and sharpens our understanding of how force and violence are used in today’s contemporary armed conflicts. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.

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Publisher: Editorial Ink
Total Pages: 191
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Reichsrock

Reichsrock
Author: Kirsten Dyck
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0813574730

From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners’ political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music has served as a key recruiting tool for neo-Nazi and racist hate groups worldwide. Reichsrock shines a light on the international white-power music industry, the fandoms it has spawned, and the virulently racist beliefs it perpetuates. Kirsten Dyck not only investigates how white-power bands and their fans have used the internet to spread their message globally, but also considers how distinctly local white-power scenes have emerged in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the United States, and many other sites. While exploring how white-power bands draw from a common well of nationalist, racist, and neo-Nazi ideologies, the book thus also illuminates how white-power musicians adapt their music to different locations, many of which have their own terms for defining whiteness and racial otherness. Closely tracking the online presence of white-power musicians and their fans, Dyck analyzes the virtual forums and media they use to articulate their hateful rhetoric. This book also demonstrates how this fandom has sparked spectacular violence in the real world, from bombings to mass shootings. Reichsrock thus sounds an urgent message about a global menace.

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Author: D. Rodgers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137035137

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.

63 Dias

63 Dias
Author: Ralph Griffith
Publisher: XAK Media Group Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release:
Genre: Fiction
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Entre el asesinato de Martin Luther King y Robert F Kennedy fueron 63 días. Esta historia la cuenta un joven de 16 años que había escapado de un reformatorio de Nevada el 4 de abril de 1968 y vuelto a arrestar unos días después del asesinato de Robert F. Kennedy en junio. La década de 1960 fue un período violento en la historia de Estados Unidos y el autor quería contar su historia. Su cita favorita es que la mayor parte de la no ficción es ficción y la mayor parte de la ficción es no ficción. El lector puede decidir qué creer. Ralph Griffith comenzó a escribir mientras estaba en una prisión federal y ha estado en libertad desde 2017.

La Violencia and the Hebrew Bible

La Violencia and the Hebrew Bible
Author: Susanne Scholz
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884141314

Exegetically noteworthy and culturally-theologically relevant Violence in its wide range of horrifying expressions is real in people’s lives, and biblical interpreters must take violence in the world seriously to arrive at relevant ideas about the place of the Bible in the world. Each essay addresses people’s experiences of violence in the study of the Bible through the context of la violencia, the Spanish noun referring to the brutal, repressive, and murderous policies of state-sponsored violence practiced in many South and Central American and Caribbean countries during the twentieth century that external powers such as the USA often endorsed and fostered. The volume represents an important contribution to biblical studies and to the field of Latina/o studies. The contributors are Cheryl B. Anderson, Pablo Andiñach, Nancy Bedford, Lee Cuéllar, Steed V. Davidson, Serge Frolov, Renata Furst, Julia M. O’Brien, Todd Penner, José Enrique Ramírez, Ivoni Richter Reimer, and Susanne Scholz. Features: Twelve essays by scholars living and working on the American continent Articles reveal the complex historical, political, and cultural conditions on the American continent that have contributed to our understanding of violence in the Bible Focus on themes of racial, social, and cultural violence

Securing the City

Securing the City
Author: Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2011-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0822349582

Anthropologists and historians examine how postwar violence in Guatemala City is reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.