Global Security Upheaval

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