Description
Book SynopsisA highly original, multi-contributed interdisciplinary investigation into organised violence across a wide range of geographical and academic areas, which argues that violence cannot be completely divorced from ‘traditional’ political objectives.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – 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, 1935–49 – 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
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