3. Persistent Insurgencies and Warlords: Who Is Nasty, Who Is Nice, and Why?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction
5. Ungoverned Spaces? The Need for Reevaluation 1
6. PART I. Conceptualizing Ungoverned Spaces and Alternative Authority
7. 1. Conceptualizing Ungoverned Spaces: Territorial Statehood, Contested Authority, and Softened Sovereignty 17
8. 2. Here Be Dragons: Dangerous Spaces and International Security 34
9. PART II. Alternative Social Governance on the Margins of Territorial Sovereignty
10. 3. Persistent Insurgencies and Warlords: Who Is Nasty, Who Is Nice, and Why? 57
11. 4. Non-state Actors and Failed States: Lessons from Al-Qa’ida’s Experiences in the Horn of Africa 77
12. 5. A Fortress without Walls: Alternative Governance Structures on the Afghan-Pakistan Frontier 95
13. PART III. Alternative Modes of Security Provision in Zones of Urban Exclusion
14. 6. Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America 115
15. 7. Authority outside the State: Non-state Actors and New Institutions in the Middle East 136
16. 8. Immigration and Subterranean Sovereignty in South African Cities 153
17. PART IV. Alternative Economies in the Shadow of the State
18. 9. Rules and Regulations in Ungoverned Spaces: Illicit Economies, Criminals, and Belligerents 175
19. 10. Nuclear Trafficking in Ungoverned Spaces and Failed States 193
20. PART V. Contesting Governance in Virtual Spaces
21. 11. From Anti–Money Laundering to . . . What? Formal Sovereignty and Feudalism in Offshore Financial Services 215
22. 12. Negotiating Internet Governance: Security Implications of Multilateral Approaches 232
23. 13. Under Cover of the Net: The Hidden Governance Mechanisms of Cyberspace 255
24. CONCLUSIONS. Ungoverned Spaces and Security
25. 14. Alternative Governance and Security 275
26. List of Contributors 295
27. Index 301