- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations
- Subject
- Note
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: World order or disorder? / Hilary Matfess and Michael Miklaucic -- I. Slouching Toward Dystopia. The global crisis of governance / Phil Williams -- The twin insurgencies: plutocrats and criminals challenge the Westphalian state / Nils Gilman -- The Islamic State revolution / Scott Atran -- The march is not linear: big party politics and the decline of democracy worldwide / Francis Fukuyama and Hilary Matfess -- Costs of hedging bad: the global threat network and impact on financial market volatility / Jay Chittooran and Scott Helfstein -- II. One Network. Terrorist and criminal dynamics: a look beyond the horizon / Christopher Dishman -- Hezbollah's criminal networks: useful idiots, henchmen, and organized criminal facilitators / Matthew Levitt -- Convergence in criminalized states: the new paradigm / Douglas Farah -- ISIL and the goal of organization survival / Jessica Stern --- III. Pandora. Virtually illicit: the use of social media in a hyper-connected world / Tuesday Reitano and Andrew Trabulsi -- "We pay, you pay": protection economies, financial flows, and violence / Mark Shaw -- The neglected mega-problem: illicit trade in "normally licit" goods / Karl Lallerstedt -- Cybercrime: the evolution of traditional crime / Raj Samani -- IV. A Toolbox for the 21st Century. Leviathan redux: toward a community of effective states / Clare Lockhart and Michael Miklaucic -- Communicate, cooperate, and collaborate (C³) through public-private partnerships (P³) to counter the convergence of illicit networks / Celina Realuyo -- Adapting to today's battlefield: the Islamic State and irregular war as the "new normal" / Sebastian Gorka -- Networks at war: organizational innovation and adaptation in the 21st century / Christopher Fussell and D.W. Lee.
- Call Number
- GPO Internet D 5.417/2:C 76/3
- OCLC
- 969979837
- Title
Beyond convergence: world without order / edited by Hilary Matfess and Michael Miklaucic.
- Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Center for Complex Operations, Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense University, 2016.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Source of description
Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (viewed January 25, 2017).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Matfess, Hilary, editor.
Miklaucic, Michael, editor.
National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy. Center for Complex Operations, issuing body.
- Other Form:
Print version: Beyond convergence: world without order (OCoLC)969978197
- Gpo Item No.
0378-H-14 (online)
- Sudoc No.
D 5.417/2:C 76/3
- Research Call Number
GPO Internet D 5.417/2:C 76/3