State and Nonstate Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives of New Social Orders"

Authors

Max G. Manwaring Dr., SSI

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Description

The monograph examines contemporary populism and neopopulism, 21st century socialism, and a nonstate actor (al-Qaeda) seeking regional and global hegemony. They are: first, paramilitary gang permutations in Colombia that are contributing significantly to the erosion of the Colombian state and its democratic institutions, and implementing the anti-system objectives of their elite neo-populist sponsors; second, Hugo Chavez’s use of the New Socialism and popular militias to facilitate his populist Bolivarian dream of creating a mega-state in Latin America; and, third, al-Qaeda’s strategic and hegemonic use of political-criminal gangs to coerce substantive change in Spanish and other Western European foreign and defense policy and governance. Lessons derived from these cases demonstrate how gangs might fit into a holistic effort to force radical political-social-economic change, and illustrate how traditional political-military objectives may be achieved indirectly, rather than directly.

ISBN

1970

Publication Date

5-1-2009

Keywords

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Recommended Citation

Max G. Manwaring Dr., State and Nonstate Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives of New Social Orders" ( US Army War College Press, 2009),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/628