warlordism

[wawr-lawrd-iz-uhm]

noun

1. rule or control by a warlord or warlords, either as the sole government or in opposition to the official government.

Example Sentences

He represents warlordism in a business suit instead of a thawb.

From Salon

This economic warlordism, like the endemic violence of Weimar, was a homegrown phenomenon, largely resulting from the lack of a democratic culture.

From Salon

A second judge, describing the syndicate’s leader, Paul Le Roux, wrote that “the scale and variety of his outrageous criminal conduct defies an easy summary, and includes arms and technology dealings with Iran and North Korea, attempts at minor warlordism in Africa, and the plotting of a coup d’état in the Seychelles.”

From New York Times

But in the longer term, if they become too strong, they could produce a new era of warlordism.

From New York Times

The country fell into warlordism, and a brutal civil war.

From New York Times