The state, identity and violence : political disintegration in the post-Cold War world

The state, identity and violence : political disintegration in the post-Cold War world / edited by R. Brian Ferguson.

Explores 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ferguson, R. Brian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:War and society (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects:
Political violence.
Political violence > Case studies.
State, The.
Nation-state.
Ethnic relations.
International relations.
terrorism.
nations.
international relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Ethnic relations
International relations
Nation-state
Political violence
State, The
Electronic books.
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Comments on state, identity, and violence / Eric R. Wolf
  • Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states / Joseph A. Tainter
  • The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege / Yale H. Ferguson
  • Tribalism, ethnicity, and the state / David Maybury-Lewis
  • Culture, violence and ethnic nationalism: weighing alternative strategies of explanation and media representation / Kay Warren
  • Civil war in Peru: culture and violence in historical perspective / Linda J. Seligmann
  • 'Religious' violence in India: Ayodhya and the Hindu right / Johanna M. Lessinger
  • The specter of superfluity: genesis of schism in the dismantling of Yugoslavia / Bette Denich
  • From the margins to the center: the Macedonian controversy in contemporary Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou
  • Liberia: civil war and the 'collapse' of the settler state / Diana Deg. Brown
  • Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state / Helio Belik
  • A Cold War story: the barbarization of Chad (1966-91) / S.P. Reyna
  • The Cold War and chaos in Somalia: a view from the ground / Catherine Besteman
  • Conflicts versus contracts: political flows and blockages in Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.

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