From warlords to statelords armed groups and power trajectories in Libya and Yemen

Armed groups play a central role in Libya and Yemen. Pervading weak and contested institutions, they have gradually brought their survival, profit and governance strategies under the state umbrella: warlords have become the new lords of the state. Armed groups control most of the energy revenues, cr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ardemagni, Eleonora, editor (editor), Fasanotti, Federica Sain, editor (writer of introduction), Magri, Paolo, writer of introduction
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milan, Italy : Ledizioni [2022]
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009710525006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, Paolo Magri - ISPI Executive Vice President
  • 1. Libya and Yemen's warlords: neopatirmonialsm under a new guise. Eleonora Ardemagni - ISPI and Catholic University of Milan
  • 2. The lords of war in the changing geopolitical system. Vanda Felbab-Brown - Brookings Institution
  • 3. Armed groups, oil revenue and energy infrastructure
  • 3.1 Libya's Shadow Statelords: War, Peace and the Predation of the Oil Sector, Anas El-Gomati - Sadeq Institute
  • 3.2 Old Elites and New Armed Groups: The Scramble Over Yemen's Oil Reserves Continues, Ahmed al-Shargabi, Mareike Transfeld - Yemen Policy Center 4. Armed groups, smuggling and illicit trafficking
  • 4.1 The Lifeblood of Libya: Armed Groups' Normalisation of a Thriving Smuggling Economy, Amanda B. Kadlec - King's College London
  • 4.2. Yemen: Militarised Borders Strengthen Smuggling Networks, Ahmed Nagi - Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
  • 5. Libya and Yemen's governance of maritime boundaries
  • 5.1 How Mafiaisation Destabilises Libya's Economy and Migration Control, Tarek Megerisi - European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
  • 5.2 Yemen's Coastal Lords: The Economics of "Multi-Governed" Maritime Boundaries, Eleonora Ardemagni - ISPI and Catholic University of Milan
  • Conclusions: How militias became proto-governments. Federica Saini Fasanotti - ISPI and Brookings Institution
  • About the authors.