Armed groups and contemporary conflicts : challenging the Weberian state / edited by Keith Krause.

Special issue of Contemporary Security Policy, volume 30, issue 2. ; "The articles compiled for this book originated from a conference held at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in April 2008..."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups / Keith Krause and Jennifer Milliken -- Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World / Diane E. Davis -- With the State against the State? The Formation of Armed Groups / Klaus Schlichte -- Grasping the Financing and Mobilization Cost of Armed Groups: A New Perspective on Conflict Dynamics / Achim Wennmann -- From Social Movement to Armed Group: A Case Study from Nigeria / Jennifer M. Hazen -- Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case / Dennis Rodgers and Robert Muggah -- Role of Non-State Actors in {u2018}Community-Based Policing{u2019} {u2013} An Exploration of the Arbakai (Tribal Police) in South-Eastern Afghanistan / Susanne Schmeidl and Masood Karokhail -- Staging Society: Sources of Loyalty in the Angolan UNITA / Teresa Koloma Beck -- Explaining Patterns of Violence in Collapsed States / William Reno -- Changing Ownership of War.