| Author | : David Correia |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781642595086 |
The Nature of Police explores the everyday practices of police and policing as modes of violence in the fabrication of social order.
Violent Order
| Author | : Nicholai Hart Lidow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2016-11-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108107745 |
Rebel groups exhibit significant variation in their treatment of civilians, with profound humanitarian consequences. This book proposes a new theory of rebel behavior and cohesion based on the internal dynamics of rebel groups. Rebel groups are more likely to protect civilians and remain unified when rebel leaders can offer cash payments and credible future rewards to their top commanders. The leader's ability to offer incentives that allow local security to prevail depends on partnerships with external actors, such as diaspora communities and foreign governments. This book formalizes this theory and tests the implications through an in-depth look at the rebel groups involved in Liberia's civil war. The book also analyzes a micro-level dataset of crop area during Liberia's war, derived through remote sensing, and an original cross-national dataset of rebel groups.
Violence and Social Orders
| Author | : Douglass Cecil North |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2009-02-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521761735 |
This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
A Savage Order
| Author | : Rachel Kleinfeld |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2018-11-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1524746878 |
The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover. In this powerfully argued and urgent book, Rachel Kleinfeld examines why some democracies, including our own, are crippled by extreme violence and how they can regain security. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, mobsters, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens. Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help.
Ordering Violence
| Author | : Paul Staniland |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2021-12-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1501761129 |
In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics—bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework—to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed by armed groups drive their responses and interactions. Staniland combines a unique new dataset of state-group armed orders in India, Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar, and Sri Lanka with detailed case studies from the region to explore when and how this model of threat perception provides insight into patterns of repression, collusion, and mutual neglect across nearly seven decades. Instead of straightforwardly responding to the material or organizational power of armed groups, Staniland finds, regimes assess how a group's politics align with their own ideological projects. Explaining, for example, why governments often use extreme repression against weak groups even while working with or tolerating more powerful armed actors, Ordering Violence provides a comprehensive overview of South Asia's complex armed politics, embedded within an analytical framework that can also speak broadly beyond the subcontinent.
State of War
| Author | : Thomas Conlan |
| Publisher | : U of M Center for Japanese Studies |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
The Terms of Order
| Author | : Cedric J. Robinson |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2016-03-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1469628228 |
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of leadership as a basis for describing and prescribing social order. Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of historically developed "stateless" societies with social organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways political order has been conceived in the West. Examining Western thought from the vantage point of a people only marginally integrated into Western institutions and intellectual traditions, Robinson's perspective radically critiques fundamental ideas of leadership and order.
Legal Order in a Violent World
| Author | : Richard A. Falk |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 628 |
| Release | : 2019-03-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 069119856X |
Professor Myres S. McDougal of the Yale Law School calls this examination of the relation of law and violence in contemporary international society "...a profound, perceptive, and eloquent contribution to the most important problem of our time." Professor Falk places great emphasis on two distinctive challenges to world order--nuclear weapons and civil strife. While developing the implication that even the most powerful states are vulnerable to destruction trhough nuclear attack, he also points out that there is no very firm hope that military power cna be managed so as to reduce the predominance of the sovereign state in world politics. Richard A. Falk is Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University. Published for the Center of International Studies, Princeton University. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018
| Author | : Daniel Borzutzky |
| Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 2021-03-02 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1566896053 |
In Written after a Massacre, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unfair policing of certain kinds of bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy. He grieves for the children in cages and the martyrs of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburg. But pulsing amid Borzutzky’s outrage over our era’s tragedies is a longing for something better: for generosity to triumph over stinginess and for peace to transform injustice.
