A Contemporary Challenge To State Sovereignty: Gangs And Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations In Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, And Brazil

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 9781312285224 1312285222 68 Education NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qbAHogEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Max G. Manwaring, Strategic Studies Institute
• • Publisher: Lulu.Com
• • Publication Date: Jun 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 67 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1312285222
• • ISBN-13: 9781312285224