Rising levels of inequality, both internationally and domestically, represent a societal as well as, increasingly, a national security concern. A strong and robust middle class has long been considered an integral part of American society, required for both the functioning of its industrialized economy and armor and mechanized-infantry based armies as well as the stability of its liberal-democratic governmental system. This reality now seems imperiled with the U.S. middle class appearing to be shrinking before our eyes. This new Small Wars Journal pocket book by Pamela Ligouri Bunker and Robert J. Bunker discusses such rising inequality concerns, provides an overview related to globalized capitalism’s domestic winners and losers, analyses criminal, plutocratic, and emergent authoritarian insurgency forms as well as the Fourth Epoch War theory construct, and then provides policy response recommendations for the U.S. government and armed forces. It is representative of the cutting edge Criminal and Plutocratic Insurgencies research and writing being produced by SWJ.
A propos de l’auteur
PAMELA LIGOURI BUNKER is a researcher and analyst specializing in international security and terrorism—with a narratives analytical focus—and is presently a non-resident fellow in terrorism and counterterrorism, TRENDS Research and Advisory, Abu Dhabi and an associate with Small Wars Journal—El Centro. She is a past senior officer of the Counter-OPFOR Corporation and has professional experience in research and program coordination in university, non-governmental organization (NGO), and city government settings. She holds undergraduate degrees in anthropology-geography and social sciences from California State Polytechnic University Pomona, an M.A. in public policy from the Claremont Graduate University, and an M.Litt. in terrorism studies from the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland. She is co-author of the Terrorism Research Center e Book The Islamic State English-Language Online Magazine Rumiyah (Rome): Research Guide, Narrative & Threat Analysis and U.S. Policy Response (2019), editor of the SWJ Plutocratic Insurgency Reader (2019), co-author of the SSI USAWC book Radical Islamist English-Language Online Magazines: Research Guide, Strategic Insights, and Policy Response (2018), author and co-editor of Global Criminal and Sovereign Free Economies and the Demise of the Western Democracies: Dark Renaissance (Routledge, 2015), and is a primary author of the Small Wars Journal plutocratic insurgency notes series. She has also published a number of referred and professional works—individually and co-authored—in Small Wars & Insurgencies, Small Wars Journal, FBI Library Subject Guides, and in various edited book projects including Narcos Over the Border (Routledge, 2011) and Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers (Routledge, 2008).
ROBERT J. BUNKER is an international security and counterterrorism professional and is presently an adjunct research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) and an instructor with the Safe Communities Institute, University of Southern California. Past associations include Futurist in Residence, Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy in Quantico, VA and Distinguished Visiting Professor and Minerva Chair at SSI, USAWC. Dr. Bunker holds university degrees in political science, government, social science, anthropology-geography, behavioral science, and history and has undertaken hundreds of hours of specialized counterterrorism and counternarcotics training. He has delivered numerous presentations—including U.S. Congressional Testimony—and has hundreds of publications including numerous books, booklets, reports, papers, articles, response guidance, and research notes. He has published a number of works related to plutocratic and criminal insurgency concerns including editing the SWJ Plutocratic Insurgency Reader (2019), authoring and co-editing the book Global Criminal and Sovereign Free Economies and the Demise of the Western Democracies: Dark Renaissance (Routledge, 2015), editing the book Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas (Routledge, 2012), and authoring the paper Old and New Insurgency Forms (SSI USAWC, 2016), as well as being a primary author of the plutocratic insurgency notes series published at Small Wars Journal.
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