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Warlord

Warlords are individuals who exercise military, economic, and political control over a region, often one without a strong central or national government, typically through informal control over local armed forces. Warlords have existed throughout much of history, albeit in a variety of different capacities within the political, economic, and social…

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Warlord

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Triples289
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Further reading · 56
Warlord → African, Ahram, American Historical Review, Ariel, Arthur, Beyond, Cambridge University Press, Charles King, China, Civil War, Clubb, Coalition Politics, Collapsing States, Contemporary European History, Cornell UP, Crafting Peace, Crime, Deal, Driscoll, Edmund
related to China · 29
Warlord → Although Chiang Kai-shek, Among, Beiyang, Beiyang Army, Central Plains War, Chiang, China, Chinese Nationalist Party, Feng Yuxiang, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Huanggutun Incident, KMT, Kuomintang, Local, Manchu, Manchuria, Northern Expedition, Shanxi, Sun Yat-sen, Taiping Rebellion
related to Liberia · 26
Warlord → After, April, Blaise Compaoré, Burkina Faso, Charles Taylor, Col, During, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, He, His, In May, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Liberia's, Liberian, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Nigeria, President, President Samuel Doe
related to Europe · 25
Warlord → Arumer Zwarte Hoop, Battle, Catalan Company, Europe, Flor, France, Free, Frisian, Germany, Great Interregnum, Hugh Calveley, Hundred Years' War, Italy, Kingdom, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Poitiers, Roger, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Several
related to Russian Civil War and Chechen conflicts · 23
Warlord → Bloody Baron' Ungern, Chechen, Civil War-era Russia, Denikin, Kolchak, Many, Meanwhile, Mongolia, Moscow, Omsk, Petrograd, Red, Rostov, Russian, Semyonov, Sternberg, The, The Cossack, These, Transbaikalia
related to Other examples · 19
Warlord → Chechnya, Congo, Dagestan, Democratic Republic, Eastern Ukraine's Alexander Zakharchenko, Gorno-Badakhshan, Haiti's Jimmy Chérizier, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, Other, Pakistan, Pashtun Tribal Areas, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Two, Wa State
related to Afghanistan · 16
Warlord → Afghanistan, April Revolution, Emirate, Hazaras, Historically, Land, Modern-day Afghanistan, Pashtuns, Rawalpindi, Tajiks, The Pashtuns, There, Treaty, Tribal, United Kingdom, Uzbeks
related to Ungoverned warlordism, or warlords as "stationary bandits" · 16
Warlord → African, American, If, In, Liberia, Mancur Olson, Oftentimes, Once, One, Sierra Leone, Some, Stationary, The, These, They, When
related to Mongolia · 15
Warlord → After, Asia, At, Eastern, European Russia, Genghis Khan, Mancur Olson, Mongol Empire, Mongol Empire's, Mongolia, Roving, The, These, Warlords, Western Mongols
related to Historical origins and etymology · 13
Warlord → American, China, During, England, First World War, In China, It, Japanese, Junfa, Piracy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The, Warlord Era

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warlords political states state within government warlordism afghanistan power central war often military violence tribal control resources politics local economic

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diamondsinstance ofhave had stationary bandits who use extraction of resources0.80text
cobaltinstance ofhave had stationary bandits who use extraction of resources0.80text
timberinstance ofhave had stationary bandits who use extraction of resources0.80text
Kolchak or Denikin are typically not considered warlords as they created more stable militaryinstance ofgenerals0.80text
governing structures that claimed legitimacy from the prewar Tsarist state.The terminstance ofgenerals0.80text
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanModern-day Afghanistan0.60section
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanTreaty0.60section
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanRawalpindi0.60section
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanUnited Kingdom0.60section
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanEmirate0.60section
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanAfghanistan0.60section
Warlordrelated to AfghanistanApril Revolution0.60section

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