Warlords in International Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Emergence and Significance of Warlordism in International Politics

   • Paul B. Rich

   Pages 1-16

3. The Arms Trade and Militarized Actors in Internal Conflict

   • Neil Cooper

   Pages 17-37

4. Warlordism and Drug Trafficking: From Southeast Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa

   • Glen Segell

   Pages 38-51

5. Privatizing Security, Privatizing War? The New Warrior Class and Regional Security

   • Kevin A. O’Brien

   Pages 52-80

6. The Militarization of Ethnicity and the Emergence of Warlordism in Rwanda, 1990–94

   • Mel McNulty

   Pages 81-102

7. The Collapse of Albania and a Different Type of Warlord: Criminal Gangs

   • Paolo Tripodi

   Pages 103-119

8. Clan Conflict and Factionalism in Somalia

   • Samuel M. Makinda

   Pages 120-139

9. Warlordism and Political Violence in Jammu and Kashmir, 1988–97: Gun Rule?

   • Alexander Evans

   Pages 140-163

10. The Warlord and Global Order

    • Stephen Chan

    Pages 164-172

11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-176

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This timely collection investigates the meaning of the widely used term 'warlordism' in contemporary global politics. The introduction develops an analytical framework in order for scholars to understand the range and differing intensity of differing types of warlordist and sub-state conflict. The volume then proceeds to an examination of warlordism in relation to the international markets in light weaponry and narcotics. It also includes a series of case-studies such as Somalia, Rwanda, Kashmir and Albania. 

• conflict
• international relations
• narcotics
• political violence
• politics
• state
• violence
• war

• Department of Politics, University of Luton, UK

  Paul B. Rich

STEPHAN CHAN Dean of Humanities, Nottingham Trent University NEIL COOPER Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Plymouth ALEXANDER EVANS Research Student and Teaching Assistant in Politics, University of Bristol KEVIN A. O'BRIEN Executive Director, Hussar International Research Group and Research Associate, Institute for Security Studies (South Africa) MEL MCNULTY Lecturer in French, Nottingham Trent University GLEN SEGELL Editorial Board of the Electronic Journal of Conflict Analysis and member of the Council for Arms Control PAOLO TRIPODI Lecturer, Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University 

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