Global Criminal and Sovereign Free Economies and the Demise of the Western Democracies : Dark Renaissance (Hardcover)

Preface: The Twin Insurgency?Facing Plutocrats and Criminals

Nils Gilman

4. Introduction: Kleptocracies, Warlords and Mafias in Uniform

Mark Galeotti

5. Overview: Dark Renaissance? Crime, Corruption, and Global Class Warfare

Robert J. Bunker and Pamela Ligouri Bunker

PART ONE: ENERGY, ECONOMICS AND WAR

6. The Contemporary Clash in Civilization

T. Lindsay Moore

7. The Illicit and Sovereign Free International Political Economies

Yelena A. Tuzova

8. Criminal Enterprises, Private Military Companies, Smart Robots and their Implications for National Sovereignty

T.X. Hammes

PART TWO: CRIMINAL AND SOVEREIGN FREE CHANGE AND CONFLICT

9. The Reconfiguring of Institutions by Illicit Networks in Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico

Luis Jorge Garay Salamanca and Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran

10. Public Looting for Private Gain: Predatory Capitalism, MNCs & Global Elites, and Plutocratic Insurgency

Robert J. Bunker

PART THREE: DEMISE OF THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES

11. The Demise of the American Middle Class and Rise of the Police State

Tanya Buhler Corbin and Nicole Hendrix

12. Crisis in Europe: The Deconstruction of the Westphalian State

Pamela Ligouri Bunker