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024 7 _a10.1515/9781501758911
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501758911
035 _a(DE-B1597)577533
035 _a(OCoLC)1269268543
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072 7 _aLAW051000
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082 0 4 _a327.1/17
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aThomas, Ward
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe New Dogs of War :
_bNonstate Actor Violence in International Politics /
_cWard Thomas.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (276 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. The Fall and Rise of Nonstate Violence --
_t2. Coherence and Contestation: Explaining International Normative Change --
_t3. Partisans, Liberators, and Militias: Normative Change and the Legitimization of Nonstate Violence --
_t4. One Man’s Freedom Fighter?: Normative Change and the Geopolitical Construction of Terrorism --
_t5. From Soldiers of Fortune to Fortune 500: Normative Contestation and the Return of Entrepreneurial Violence --
_t6. What’s at Stake?: The Implications of Nonstate Actor Violence --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAs Ward Thomas details in The New Dogs of War, in many countries militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments, while in some war zones private contractors perform missions previously reserved for uniformed troops. Most ominously, terrorist organizations with global reach have come to define the security landscape for even the most powerful nations. Across the first decades of the twenty-first century we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the use of military force by these nonstate actors in ways that impact the international system, leading Thomas to undertake this valuable assessment of the state of play at this critical moment. To understand the spread of nonstate violence, Thomas focuses on the crucial role played by an epochal transformation in international norms. Since the eighteenth century, the Westphalian model of sovereignty has reserved the legitimate use of force to states. Thomas argues that normative changes in the decades after World War II produced a "crisis of coherence" for formal and informal rules against nonstate violence. In detailed case studies of nonstate militias, transnational terrorist networks, and private military contractors, Thomas explains how forces contesting state prerogatives exploited this crisis, which in turn reshaped international understandings of who could legitimately use force. By considering for the first time all three purveyors of nonstate violence as aspects of the same phenomenon, The New Dogs of War explains this fundamental shift in the norm that for centuries gave states the monopoly on military force.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aNon-state actors (International relations).
650 0 _aPolitical violence.
650 0 _aSecurity, International.
650 4 _aInternational Studies.
650 4 _aSecurity Studies.
650 7 _aLAW / International.
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653 _ainternational norms, military force, principle of national self determination, nonstate force, private force,.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758911?locatt=mode:legacy
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