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Article on page: VIII, 123, 10 p. Tags: Political anthropology ; political behaviour ; Ethnology ; Social behaviour ; Political violence Languages: English Books
This book examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in process[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-03-215498-5 Article on page: 313 p. Descriptors: 6.20 International relations > State security > Armed forces
Class number: 303.609 172 4 Tags: Paramilitary forces ; Political violence ; Developing countries ; Elite (Social sciences) ; Globalization Languages: English Thesis
Article on page: 1 vol. (VII, 240 p.) Descriptors: Tags: Women terrorists ; Women suicide bombers ; Political violence ; Feminism ; Violence in women Languages: English Thesis
Article on page: 229 Descriptors: Tags: War ; World politics ; International relations--History--20th century ; Political violence Languages: English Books
This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the discipline's tendency to idealize society in an attemp[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-367-82117-3 Article on page: XV, 162 p. Descriptors: Class number: 363.325 Tags: Terrorism--Social aspects ; Political violence ; Power (Social sciences) ; Terrorism--Prevention--United States ; War on terrorism, 2001-2009 Languages: English Thesis
This volume comprises key essays by Ted Robert Gurr on the causes and consequences of organized political protest and rebellion, its outcomes and strategies for conflict management. From the Castro-inspired revolutionary movements of Latin Ameri[...]
Article on page: XIV, 291 p. Tags: Revolutions (E) ; Political violence ; Protest movements ; Conflict management ; World politics--1945-1989 ; World politics--1989- Languages: English Thesis
By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to[...]
Article on page: XVIII, 485 p. Tags: Civil war ; Political violence Languages: English Books
Michel Seurat ; Gilles Kepel, Author of introduction, etc. | Paris : Presses Universitaires de France | Proche Orient | 2012Compilation des meilleurs textes de Michel Seurat sur la nature "barbare" du régime syrien issus de trois recueils : L'État de barbarie, La Syrie aujourd'hui et Les Frères musulmans. Le chercheur a consacré sa vie à l'étude du régime d'Assad et [...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-2-13-060703-8 Article on page: 286 Descriptors: Class number: 320.956 91 Tags: Syria--Politics and government--1971-2000 ; Political violence Languages: French Thesis
Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations while others exhibit restraint. Rebel leaders in some countries transform local structures of government while others do nothing more than extract resources. In some contexts, rebel groups kill th[...]
Article on page: XX, 402 p. Descriptors: Tags: Insurgency ; Insurgency--Case studies ; Political violence Languages: English Thesis
The essays in this volume follow the political, economic, and social processes behind the emergence of VNSAs and the way in which they manipulate crises. Contributors isolate the point at which violence becomes desirable to the non-state actor a[...]
Article on page: 1 vol. (XXV, 475 p.) Tags: Non-state actors (International relations) ; Political violence ; Terrorism Languages: English