Death Squads in Global Perspective

Murder with Deniability

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvB. Campbell,A. Brenner,Bruce B. Campbell,Arthur David Brenner

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Whether in the form of quasi-state or rogue groups, armed factions engaged in violence have played important roles in atrocities across time and place. This collection examines the actions, roles and influence of death squads in such countries as Weimar Germany, El Salvador, South Africa and the Balkans. With ethnic conflict and the implosion of states an on-going cause of instability, this book provides insights and should appeal to such classes as comparative genocide, ethnic conflict and generally violence. Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged or undertaken by the state itself, which thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of the fundamental characteristics of modern states. Why do such a variety of regimes, under very different circumstances, condone such activity? This text hopes to answer that question and explain not only their development, but also why they can be expected to proliferate in the early 21st century.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-04-28
Mått140 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor364
Upplaga2000
FörlagPalgrave USA
ISBN9781403960948

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Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical Context; B.B.Campbell PART I: HISTORICAL CASES 'To Induce a Sense of Terror': Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-1934 and 1981-1995; M.J.Schroeder Feme Murder: Paramilitary 'Self Justice' in Weimar Germany; A.D.Brenner PART II: DEMOCRATIC REGIME TRANSITIONS Window on the Past: A Declassified History of Death Squads in El Salvador; C.J.Arnson Stage of Siege: Political Violence and Vigilante Mobilization in the Philippines; E.Hedman PART III: SOCIAL CONTROL State Terrorism and Death Squads in Uganda (1971-79); E.Kannyo From Petrus to Ninja: Death Squads in Indonesia; R.Cribb Modernity and Devolution: The Making of Police Death Squads in Modern Brazil; M.K.Huggins PART IV: NATIONAL, ETHNIC, AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CONFLICT The Rise and Fall of Apartheid's Death Squads, 1963-1993; K.Gottschalk India's Secret Armies; P.Gossman Territoriality and Plausible Deniability: Serbian Paramilitaries in the Bosnian War; J.Ron Appendix: Other Death Squad Cases About the Contributors

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