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New Threats and New Actors in International Security

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  1. Elke Krahmann
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. From State to Non-State Actors: The Emergence of Security Governance

      • Elke Krahmann
      Pages 3-19

  3. Civil War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. The New Conflict Managers: Peacebuilding NGOs and State Agendas

      • Loramy Conradi Gerstbauer
      Pages 23-43

    3. Humanitarians and Mercenaries: Partners in Security Governance?

      • Christopher Spearin
      Pages 45-65

  4. Terrorism and Transnational Crime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Drug Traffickers, Terrorist Networks, and III-Fated Government Strategies

      • Michael Kenney
      Pages 69-90

    3. Targeting Money Laundering: Global Approach or Diffusion of Authority?

      • Eleni Tsingou
      Pages 91-107

  5. HIV/AIDS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. HIV/AIDS: The International Security Dimensions

      • Stefan Elbe
      Pages 111-130

    3. NGOs as Security Actors in the Fight against HIV/AIDS?

      • Carrie Sheehan
      Pages 131-152

  6. Small Arms and Light Weapons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. The Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons

      • Mike Bourne
      Pages 155-176

    3. NGOs and the Shaping of the European Controls on Small Arms Exports

      • Holger Anders
      Pages 177-196

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 213-230
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Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.

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"Viewing non-state forces appropriately as capable of both degrading and enhancing global stability, this insightful volume is useful theoretically and empirically in broadening commonly-held notions of security and governance."

- Robert Mandel, Lewis & Clark College

About the authors

ELKE KRAHMANN is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol, UK.

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