Armed Groups: The Twenty-First-Century Threat - Paperback
Armed Groups: The Twenty-First-Century Threat - Paperback
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by Peter G. Thompson (Author)
Armed Groups provides a framework for categorizing and analyzing a key threat to today's security arena--terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations. Understanding their goals, strategies, internal composition, and the environment that fosters them is crucial to understand today's changing nature of war.
Author Biography
PETER G. THOMPSON is a Professor of International Security Studies in the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He has developed and taught a wide range of International Relations and International Security courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Peter also teaches in Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and prior to joining the faculty at NDU taught at UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, and Michigan State University. His research has been published in Security Studies, Asian Security, and the Annual Review of Political Science.