State and nonstate associated gangs
Subtitle: credible "midwives of new social orders"
By: Max G. Manwaring.
Contributors: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Carlisle, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9781584873907
Subjects: Gangs -- South America; Gangs -- Europe, Western; Counterinsurgency; Political stability; Sovereignty
Description: 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.
Notes: "May 2009."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-71).

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