An Intimate Relationship
eBook - ePub

An Intimate Relationship

Non-State Armed Actors and Statehood

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

An Intimate Relationship

Non-State Armed Actors and Statehood

About this book

This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducted by the author. The book develops a simple model based on goals and means, which allows us to increase our understanding and comprehension of organisations and individuals that decide to take up arms in the name of a political cause. One of the key arguments is that statehood plays a critical role for NSAAs, irrespective of their military capabilities, ideological aspirations and geographic origins. They are 'non-state' not by choice but because they are unable to be a 'state' actor. In other words, their stateless status is a matter of lack of power, not lack of will.

With the aim of shedding light on the intimate relationship between NSAAs and statehood, the book examines 25 cases from around the globe. These armed actors use violence in order to attain divergent political aims, which are segmented into two macro categories, namely territorial change (secessionists) and regime change (Marxists-Leninist, Salafi-Jihadists and far-right).

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. ChapterĀ 1 Introduction
  6. ChapterĀ 2 Statehood, violence and legitimacy
  7. ChapterĀ 3 Goals and Means: A model to examine the interrelation between NSAAs and statehood
  8. ChapterĀ 4 Secessionist NSAAs and statehood
  9. ChapterĀ 5 Marxist-Leninist NSAAs and statehood
  10. ChapterĀ 6 Salafi-Jihadist NSAAs and statehood
  11. ChapterĀ 7 Far-right NSAAs and statehood
  12. ChapterĀ 8 Conclusion
  13. Index of authors
  14. Index of terms