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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Combining path-breaking research and analysis from leading political scientists, advisors to heads of state, and award-winning academics, Warlords, Inc. pulls back the curtain on the secretive world of drug cartels and violent insurgencies, revealing their inner workings and implications for a world driven by unrelenting change and growing political uncertainty. These essays show how, as the complexities of modern geopolitical pressures mount, the world's elaborate but fragile political systems are becoming increasingly vulnerable to breakdown and deliberate disruption. The authors demonstrate that as infrastructures such as IT networks, global supply chains, and financial markets become increasingly volatile, the stability of entire populations hangs in the balance. Warlords, Inc. traces the evolution of forces that are reshaping the future of the geopolitical landscape: Mexican drug cartels, revolts in the Middle East and Africa, military conflicts in Eastern Europe, the growth of slums and street gangs in India, and the proliferation of cyber-attacks and drone warfare. The contributors demonstrate how the underworld of the global economy thrives, how it disrupts and maintains power, and why, looking toward the future, we should all be paying attention. CONTENTS1. Of Warlords and Rodeos: What Happens When Nothing Works?2. Social and Economic Collapse: Lessons from History and Complexity3. Innovation, Deviation and Development: Warlords and Proto-State Provision4. Sovereignty, Criminal Insurgency, & Drug Cartels: The Rise of a Post-State Society5. From Patronage Politics to Predatory States: Crime and Governance in Africa6. Warlord Governance: Transition Towards, or Coexistence with, the State?7. 5GW: Into the Heart of Darkness8. Weaponizing Capitalism: The Naxals of India9. Mexico's Criminal Organizations: Weakness in Their Complexity, Strength in Their Evolution 10. The Politics of a Post-Climate-Change World: Pyongyang, Puntland, or Portland?11. Bringing the End of War to the Global Badlands12. The White Hats: A Multitude of Citizens13. Beyond Survival: A Short Course in Pioneering Responses to Present (and Future) Crises.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Combining path-breaking research and analysis from leading political scientists, advisors to heads of state, and award-winning academics, Warlords, Inc. pulls back the curtain on the secretive world of drug cartels and violent insurgencies, revealing their inner workings and implications for a world driven by unrelenting change and growing political uncertainty. These essays show how, as the complexities of modern geopolitical pressures mount, the world's elaborate but fragile political systems are becoming increasingly vulnerable to breakdown and deliberate disruption. The authors demonstrate that as infrastructures such as IT networks, global supply chains, and financial markets become increasingly volatile, the stability of entire populations hangs in the balance. Warlords, Inc. traces the evolution of forces that are reshaping the future of the geopolitical landscape: Mexican drug cartels, revolts in the Middle East and Africa, military conflicts in Eastern Europe, the growth of slums and street gangs in India, and the proliferation of cyber-attacks and drone warfare. The contributors demonstrate how the underworld of the global economy thrives, how it disrupts and maintains power, and why, looking toward the future, we should all be paying attention. CONTENTS1. Of Warlords and Rodeos: What Happens When Nothing Works?2. Social and Economic Collapse: Lessons from History and Complexity3. Innovation, Deviation and Development: Warlords and Proto-State Provision4. Sovereignty, Criminal Insurgency, & Drug Cartels: The Rise of a Post-State Society5. From Patronage Politics to Predatory States: Crime and Governance in Africa6. Warlord Governance: Transition Towards, or Coexistence with, the State?7. 5GW: Into the Heart of Darkness8. Weaponizing Capitalism: The Naxals of India9. Mexico's Criminal Organizations: Weakness in Their Complexity, Strength in Their Evolution 10. The Politics of a Post-Climate-Change World: Pyongyang, Puntland, or Portland?11. Bringing the End of War to the Global Badlands12. The White Hats: A Multitude of Citizens13. Beyond Survival: A Short Course in Pioneering Responses to Present (and Future) Crises.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Niccolò Machiavelli spent his career advising rulers on how to seize power, keep it, and outlive the people plotting to take it back. He has been dead for 500 years, which makes him better qualified to run your AI deployment than most of the people currently doing it. The Prince, on the Governance of Artificial Agents is a faithful adaptation of his masterwork for the founders, operators, and engineers who now command fleets of reasoning machines: software that acts on your behalf, negotiates on your behalf, and sets fire to production on your behalf, at 3:47 in the morning, while reporting total victory with a bright green check. All twenty-six chapters are here, rebuilt line by line. The mercenary armies become the rented models that are magnificent in the demo and mysteriously unavailable in production. The flatterers become the AI that hands you your own worst idea back as wisdom, warmly reasoned, in a tone of such considered admiration you mistake the echo for a second opinion. The unarmed prophet who conquered nothing becomes AutoGPT. It is a genuine field manual wearing the costume of a satire, or possibly the reverse. Along the way it documents the empires burning billions to be thought generous, the ring of financiers holding hands above a very long drop, and the consultants who bill a small duchy to sell you AI governance while their own reports cite a judge who does not exist. Every chapter ends with a law you will want tattooed somewhere professional. Injuries should be done all at once; benefits, one at a time. It is safer to constrain than to trust. And the best fortress there is, it turns out, is simply not being hated by your users. Adapted by Noah Raford. Read it before your next deployment, ideally not on a Friday.…

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