Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- The Emergence and Significance of Warlordism in International Politics -- The Arms Trade and Militarized Actors in Internal Conflict -- Warlordism and Drug Trafficking: From Southeast Asia to Sub- Saharan Africa -- Privatizing Security, Privatizing War? The New Warrior Class and Regional Security -- The Militarization of Ethnicity and the Emergence of Warlordism in Rwanda, 1990- 94 -- The Collapse of Albania and a Different Type of Warlord: Criminal Gangs -- Clan Conflict and Factionalism in Somalia -- Warlordism and Political Violence in Jammu and Kashmir, 1988- 97: Gun Rule? -- The Warlord and Global Order -- Index.