Abstract
Since the end of the Cold War, violent non-state actors present an increasingly topical threat to the international stability. No matter whether we speak about a rise of radical jihadism in the MENA region, drug-trefficking that turned the Central America into one of the most violent regions in the globe, or ethnonationalist struggles in the South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa, these actors represent a shift in the power centre of the international politics.
The increasing ability of these actors to control over means of violence, economic power and to provide rudimentary governance in areas with lack of state power is an important phenomenon of the contemporary geopolitics.