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Fragile States
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks and crises. This engaging book defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states,... more...
The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 170.00The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture,... more...
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 170.00Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma 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. The book includes case studies on: * ethnic violence between Serbs and Croats in... more...
Constitutional Violence
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 104.00If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy?. Almost every state in the world has a written constitution. The great majority of these declare the constitution to be the law controlling the organs of the state. We tend to label western liberal political systems as constitutional democracies, dividing... more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 165.00Aimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal debates on political violence, a field which is becoming an increasingly important part of courses on peace and conflict. more...
State, Identity and Violence
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 180.00In this book, a collection of experts investigate the varied forces - from global systems to local beliefs - that lead to civil violence, chaos and, perhaps, a new political order. The State, Identity and Violence explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they... more...
The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 53.95This is an analysis of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. The author has been shot at, kidnapped, expelled and questioned in wars from Central America to Northern Ireland. The book reflects his access to the cultures of political violence. more...
Message to the Movement
Zuccotti Park Press 2012; US$ 5.99Radical black journalist gives organizing advice, political analysis and encouragement to activists from his cell on Death Row more...
Understanding Collective Political Violence
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents: Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement. more...
Contemporary violence
Manchester University Press 2010; US$ 95.00Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya draws on several years of field research, as well as interpretive IR theory and analysis of empirical source material so as to shed light on contemporary violence. Drawing on interpretive approaches to International Relations, the book argues that founding events and multiple contexts informed... more...









