Firstly, they must control their military commanders and reverse the slide into predatory warlordism and criminal behaviour.

Moreover, does anyone, for example, want to see China return to the years of bloody warlordism of the early twentieth century?

Afghanistan remains the world s fifth poorest country and its biggest opium producer, with a weak central state that is further debilitated by warlordism and the Taliban insurgency.

Journalist Álvaro Vargas Llosa writes in an article that Bolívar was a better warlord than all the other Latin American leaders from that time, but that warlordism itself is still the heart of the Latin problem

Moreover, does anyone, for example, want to see China return to the years of bloody warlordism of the early twentieth century? Not likely. Thus clear principles are needed, as neither self determination nor the inviolability of national borders can be treated as sacrosanct in every case.

Afghanistan remains the world s fifth poorest country and its biggest opium producer, with a weak central state that is further debilitated by warlordism and the Taliban insurgency. There are many reasons for this outcome, but at least some of the blame lies with the European Union.

A high level of instability and conflict on the continent, coupled with the general state of underdevelopment, had created fertile ground for polarization, warlordism, terrorism and crime, all of which created the space for mercenaries and the services of PSCs, both to combat these phenomena and to perpetuate them.