Description
Book SynopsisThis book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling elite, and when such mobilization will result in mass killing. In doing so, it illustrates the important role urbanization and food insecurity historically played, and will continue to play, in generating extreme forms of civilian victimization.
Table of Contents1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Food Crises, Urban Development, and Mass Killing In
Nondemocratic States
3. Chapter 3: Urban Development and Mass Killing: A First Look at the Data
4. Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis of Food Crises and Mass Killing
5. Chapter 5: Urban Development, Food Shortages and Mass Killing In
Authoritarian Pakistan
6. Chapter 6: Food Riots, Urbanization and Mass Killing Campaigns: Indonesia
And Malaysia
7. Chapter 7: Conclusion
