Ungoverned Spaces

by Clunan, Anne L.; Trinkunas, Harold A.

• ISBN13: 9780804770125
• ISBN10: 0804770123
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Stanford Security Studies

Summary

"Ungoverned spaces" are often cited as key threats to national and international security and are increasingly targeted by the international community for external interventionsboth armed and otherwise. This book examines exactly when and how these spaces contribute to global insecurity, and it incorporates the many spaces where state authority is contestedfrom tribal, sectarian, or clan-based governance in such places as Pakistani Waziristan, to areas ruled by persistent insurgencies, such as Colombia, to nonphysical spaces, such as the internet and global finance. Within this multiplicity of contexts, the book addresses a range of security concerns, including weapons of mass destruction, migrants, dirty money, cyberdata, terrorists, drug lords, warlords, insurgents, radical Islamist groups, and human privacy and security. Ultimately,Ungoverned Spacesdemonstrates that state-centric approaches to these concerns are unlikely to supplant the many sites of authority that provide governance in a world of softened sovereignty.

Author Biography

Anne L. Clunan is an Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Post Graduate School. Harold A. Trinkunas is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Ungoverned Spaces? The Need for Reevaluation	p. 3
Conceptualizing Ungoverned Spaces and Alternative Authority
Conceptualizing Ungoverned Spaces: Territorial Statehood, Contested Authority, and Softened Sovereignty	p. 17
Here Be Dragons: Dangerous Spaces and International Security	p. 34
Alternative Social Governance on the Margins of Territorial Sovereignty
Persistent Insurgencies and Warlords: Who Is Nasty, Who Is Nice, and Why?	p. 57
Non-state Actors and Failed States: Lessons from Al-Qa'ida's Experiences in the Horn of Africa	p. 77
A Fortress without Walls: Alternative Governance Structures on the Afghan-Pakistan Frontier	p. 95
Alternative Modes of Security Provision in Zones of Urban Exclusion
Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America	p. 115
Authority outside the State: Non-state Actors and New Institutions in the Middle East	p. 136
Immigration and Subterranean Sovereignty in South African Cities	p. 153
Alternative Economies in the Shadow of the State
Rules and Regulations in Ungoverned Spaces: Illicit Economies, Criminals, and Belligerents	p. 175
Nuclear Trafficking in Ungoverned Spaces and Failed States	p. 193
Contesting Governance in Virtual Spaces
From Anti-Money Laundering to... What? Formal Sovereignty and Feudalism in Offshore Financial Services	p. 215
Negotiating Internet Governance: Security Implications of Multilateral Approaches	p. 232
Under Cover of the Net: The Hidden Governance Mechanisms of Cyberspace	p. 255
Conclusions: Ungoverned Spaces and Security
Alternative Governance and Security	p. 275
List of Contributors	p. 295
Index	p. 301
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