http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-crime-conflict-nexus-warlords-and-pseudo-states <span>The Crime-Conflict Nexus: Warlords and Pseudo-States</span> <div class="field field--name-field-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> From ISN ETH Zurich, 1 May.</p> <blockquote> <p> When a state is unable to maintain its monopoly on violence, power-vacuums inevitably arise. Today, Mark Galeotti provides valuable insights into how organized criminals and warlords fill these vacuums in failed, weak and even pseudo-states.</p> </blockquote> <p>  </p> <p> Read the rest <a href="http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Articles/Special-Feature/Detail/?lng=en&amp;id=163295&amp;contextid774=163295&amp;contextid775=163298&amp;tabid=1454267747">here</a>.</p> </div> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Tue, 05/07/2013 - 12:59pm</span> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/blog/the-crime-conflict-nexus-warlords-and-pseudo-states" rel="tag" title="The Crime-Conflict Nexus: Warlords and Pseudo-States" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Crime-Conflict Nexus: Warlords and Pseudo-States</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/index.php/blog/the-crime-conflict-nexus-warlords-and-pseudo-states#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">3 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/index.php/taxonomy/term/300/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1662648155" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Tue, 07 May 2013 16:59:22 +0000 Peter J. Munson 14068 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/clausewitz-and-the-non-state-actor-a-contemporary-application-of-the-paradoxical-trinity-to <span>Clausewitz and the Non-State Actor: A Contemporary Application of the Paradoxical Trinity to Countering Terrorism</span> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Tue, 05/15/2012 - 5:52am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> Clausewitz and non-state actors - a combination that surely won't produce any disagreements, will it?</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/clausewitz-and-the-non-state-actor-a-contemporary-application-of-the-paradoxical-trinity-to" rel="tag" title="Clausewitz and the Non-State Actor: A Contemporary Application of the Paradoxical Trinity to Countering Terrorism" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Clausewitz and the Non-State Actor: A Contemporary Application of the Paradoxical Trinity to Countering Terrorism</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/clausewitz-and-the-non-state-actor-a-contemporary-application-of-the-paradoxical-trinity-to#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">7 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/index.php/taxonomy/term/300/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1337516414" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Tue, 15 May 2012 09:52:03 +0000 Peter J. Munson 12624 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com