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State, Identity and Violenceby R. Brian Ferguson
Routledge 2002; US$ 170.00Explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they challenge the character or very existence of the state. more...
Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliationby Michael Humphrey
Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00Humphrey examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. This book provides a theoretical and comparative analysis of the legacies of violence for social reconstruction. more...
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemmaby Paul Roe
Routledge 2004; US$ 160.00This book explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead. more...
From Civil Strife to Civil Societyby William Maley; Charles Sampford; Ramesh Thakur
United Nations University Press 2003; US$ 33.00Offers an examination of the dimensions of state disruption and the roles of the international community in responding to it, looks at military doctrine for dealing with disorder and humanitarian emergencies, and examines mechanisms for ending violence and delivering justice. more...
The Logic of Violence in Civil Warby Stathis N. Kalyvas; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 28.00Why is violence in civil war so brutal when it is often taking place between people who know each other? Is such violence an instance of collective madness? This book demonstrates that there is logic to this violence, entailing the joint action of armed organizations and individual civilians. more...
Violent Geographiesby Derek Gregory
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 29.95Derek Gregory and Allan Pred's Violent Geographies gathers together a group of young and well established geographers to look at how territory and space delimit and shape both terrorism and political violence in wide range of places, from the Middle East to Latin America. In short, the book shows how physical violence, especially terrorism, disrupts the distinction between the global and the local by injecting transnational politics into the intimacies of everyday life. Violent Geographies also shows how terrorism is not simply used by nonstate groups --states use it as well, including many of America's allies. It goes far beyond 9/11 moving backward in history and across the globe to other locales to get at the heightened states of emergency... more...
Violent Politicsby Michael Addison
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 130.00Violent politics in Northern Ireland has lasted thirty years and cost four thousand lives and billions of pounds. Many such conflicts afflict the world. This book describes the search for causes and solutions. It identifies the key factors driving violent politics and the range of counter-strategies. It analyzes the course of the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the results of the countermeasures used. The conclusions are disturbing. The recommendations are controversial, but difficult to escape. more...
Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin Americaby Will Fowler; Peter Lambert
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. This book is written by an international team of specialists and spanning a range of Latin American countries. more...
Agents of Atrocityby Neil J. Mitchell
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 42.00"Agents of Atrocity" examines the horrors of civil war and seeks to know what motivates leaders who turn to massacre and pillaging to further their aims. Using historical case studies, Neil J. Mitchell sheds light on the vexed question of responsibility and considers how atrocities may in future be averted. more...
Al Qaeda Nowby Karen J. Greenberg
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 22.00This volume constitutes a valuable synopsis of current knowledge on Al Qaeda. more...









