Violence and the State

Herausgeber: Killingsworth, Matt; Pakulski, Jan; Guittet, Emmanuel Pierre; Sussex, Matthew; Lawler, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Max Weber famously the defined the state as 'a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory'. Yet the degree to which this remains the case is hotly debated. With this in mind, this book sets out to help unlock an intriguing interdisciplinary puzzle relating to violence: 'what is the relationship between the instrumental uses of violence, and the willingness of states to employ it?' The book takes as its starting point the assumption that violence cannot be completely divorced from 'traditional' political objectives. From this, it hypothesises that while types of violence from mass wars to the use of militias, armed gangs and even drones might change; the main purposes of political violence largely do not. More importantly, however, the book examines the contention that elites will alter their attitude to violence if it is an instrument to achieve their own ends. In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state gives an original and innovative way in which to understand political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores the complex relationship between the state and its continued use of violence through a variety of historical and contemporary case studies, including the Napoleonic Wars, Nazi and Soviet 'eliticide', the consolidation of authority in modern China, Post-Soviet Russia, and International criminal tribunals. It also looks at humanitarian intervention in cases of organised violence. The interdisciplinary approach, which spans history, sociology, international law and international relations, ensures that this book will be invaluable to a broad cross-section of scholars and politically engaged readers alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097027
• ISBN-10: 0719097029
• Artikelnr.: 42788635

Autorenporträt

Matt Killingsworth is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania Matthew Sussex is Head of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tasmania Jan Pakulski is Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
understanding violence and the state
Matthew Sussex and Matt Killingsworth 1. War in the Revolutionary
Napoleonic Age: the French experience, 1792
1815,
Gavin Daly 2. State violence and the eliticide in Poland, 1935
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Jan Pakulski 3. State violence and China's unfinished national unification: conflict with minorities
Terry Narramore 4. Instruments of state violence in hybridising regimes: the case of post
communist Russia,
Matthew Sussex 5. Crimea as a Eurasian pivot in 'Arc of Conflict': managing the great power relations trilemma,
Graeme Herd 6. Violence and the contestation of the state after civil wars
Jasmine Kim
Westendorf 7. Humanitarian intervention and the moral dimension of violence
Jannika Brostrom 8. Limiting the use of force: the ICTY, ICTR and ICC
Matt Killingsworth 9. Conclusions
violence and the state, past, present and future
Matt Killingsworth, Matthew Sussex and Gavin Daly Index