The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World by Ferguson, R. Brian

The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415274128)

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The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World by Ferguson, R. Brian

The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World

$200.00
The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World by Ferguson, R. Brian

The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, a collection of experts investigate the varied forces - from global systems to local beliefs - that lead to civil violence, chaos and, perhaps, a new political order. The State, Identity and Violence explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they challenge the character or very existence of the state. Building upon the anthropological premises of holism and cross-cultural comparison, this volume shows how violent challenges to existing states should be conceptualized as layered problems, with multiple kinds of causes. It not only goes beyond the "ancient hatreds" explanation, but shows the inadequacy of the concept of "ethnic violence" and of theories which treat interests and identities as separate, sometimes opposed variables

Author: R. Brian Ferguson
ISBN-10: 0415274125
ISBN-13: 9780415274128
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2002
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.36w x 0.94d
By R. Brian Ferguson
By R. Brian Ferguson
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R. Brian Ferguson is a cultural anthropologist at Rutgers University-Newark. He has written extensively on many aspects of war, primarily as practiced by tribal peoples. His previously published books include Warfare, Culture and Environment (ed.), Yanomami Warfare and War in the Tribal Zone - co-edited with Neil Whitehead.

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