| A Contemporary Challenge To State Sovereignty: Gangs And Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations In Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, J Contributor(s): Manwaring, Max G. (Author), Institute, Strategic Studies (Author) |
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ISBN: 1312285222 ISBN-13: 9781312285224 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Education |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 6" W x 9" (0.25 lbs) 68 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this monograph, Dr. Max Manwaring builds on his 2005 SSI monograph, Street Gangs: The New Urban Insurgency, and illustrates gang and Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO) linkage to instability and its aftermath. He explains that gang-generated instability leads to threats to national, regional, and global security, nation-state sovereignty, failing and failed states, and a "clash of civilizations." Thus, whether a gang or another TCO is specifically a criminal or an insurgent type organization is irrelevant. The putative objective of all these illegal nonstate entities |