Beyond Convergence: World Without Order

by Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University, Hilary Matfess (Editor)

A follow-on collection of essays to the successful book Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization. Since then, events around the world have evolved, confirming the threat posed against world order. A range of new actors and emerging dynamics have rapidly evolved with in the global operating environment. Beyond World Without Order begins mapping these new actors and dynamics, providing evidence of collaboration, collusion, and coordination among diverse networked nonstate adversaries. Illicit networks, including terrorists, insurgents, and transnational criminal organizations, pose an existential threat to many states, and cumulatively to the rule of law-based global system of states.

397 pages, Paperback

Published February 25, 2020