Global Security Upheaval - by Robert Mandel (Paperback)

About the Book

This book analyzes conceptually and empirically this ongoing global shift in security governance from public to private hands and specifically evaluates the role of armed non-state groups in stability promotion.

Book Synopsis

This book analyzes conceptually and empirically this ongoing global shift in security governance from public to private hands and specifically evaluates the role of armed non-state groups in stability promotion.

Review Quotes

"Global Security Upheaval contributes to the growing debate about whether state sovereignty should be respected as an automatic right and provides a practical framework for thinking about international responses to difficult situations like ensuring stability in places such as Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. The book's proposal to support local actors who provide people with security and are seen locally as legitimate--whether state or non-state armed groups--makes it an unusually important contribution to the study of governance in the context of conflict."--William Reno "Northwestern University"

"Armed non-state groups have always been seen as diametrically opposed to stability. Robert Mandel, in this latest, thought-provoking book, challenges this notion. The outcomes of his research are certain to surprise you. The book also makes a bold attempt at creating a much needed alternative for the state-centric paradigm that has dominated thinking about security for too long. The book is innovative and masterly, and a great addition to the debate. A must-read!"--Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Strategic Studies, Leiden University "the Netherlands"

"Professor Mandel's fascinating and comprehensive analysis challenges the widespread assumption that armed non-state actors have to be eliminated in order to achieve national and international stability."--Elke Krahmann, Professor of Politics and History "Brunel University"

"Robert Mandel's Global Security Upheaval: Armed Non-state Groups Usurping State Stability Functions is a tour de force in the field of security studies. The author's arguments and recommendations turn the Westphalian state system on its head. . . . I recommend this book to anyone interested in global security studies and future military leaders. This text can be especially useful to students at the US Army War College, many of whom will have to face the dilemma raised by Mandel."--José de Arimatéia da Cruz "Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly"

"This is a well-written, provocative work. . . . Recommended."--A. C. Tuttle "Choice"

About the Author

Robert Mandel is Professor of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College. He is the author of Dark Logic: Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security (Stanford University Press, 2011).