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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Yamane, Tatsuo. "Examining West African Regional Security from a Relationship between States and Armed Groups: A Study for Regime Change Dynamics in Liberia" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-10-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p253427_index.html>

Yamane, T. , 2008-03-26 "Examining West African Regional Security from a Relationship between States and Armed Groups: A Study for Regime Change Dynamics in Liberia" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2008-10-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p253427_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: How do armed groups as non-state actors influence the regional security in the context of international relations? Failed states create a fertile soil for acts of violence and drive marginalized people to mobilize the armed groups for their own profits. These armed groups often collude regionally and globally with each others over the state border in terms of personnel, substances, and information. This paper seeks to address the following question, while referring to the case of the regime change dynamics in Liberia between 1990s and 2006: how do armed groups as stakeholders of state governance influence the regional security in West Africa? In a process of transformation of the state governance in Liberia – for example, from the 1997 national elections followed by a “failed” transition after the election with armed insurgencies, then forced regime change as a result of sanction and forcible intervention by the international community in attempt to reduce regional insecurity in 2003, followed by the firm “establishment” of democratic governance in 2005 with the new president, along with an indictment of the ex-president Taylor for war crimes – major armed groups pursued “their” own profits in peace negotiations and its implementation. Rivalry among the groups over their own profit repeatedly threatened the regional security under the complex governance between “state” and “non-state” actors. Therefore, this paper purports to present the dynamic composition of a relationship between the state governance and armed groups in Liberia, which influenced the regional security by mobilizing international community to initiate the “regime change.”

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