ISBN:
0415365872
,
0415365880
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 144 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Contemporary security studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnic Conflict And Terrorism : The Origins and Dynamics of Civil Wars
DDC:
303.6/2/089
Keywords:
Terrorism
;
Intergroup relations
;
Civil war
;
Ethnic conflict
;
Violence
;
Civil war
;
Ethnic conflict
;
Intergroup relations
;
Terrorism
;
Violence
;
Electronic books
;
Minderheitenfrage
;
Bürgerkrieg
;
Terrorismus
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Explaining the origins and dynamics crises that shocked the world, this new analysis details atrocities committed in Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere that led to hundreds of thousands of victims
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 GRID CHARACTERISTICS AND GROUP BOUNDARIES; 3 WANING GOVERNMENT, DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT AND STRATEGIC CONSTELLATION; 4 VIOLENCE AND (DE)CIVILISATION; 5 VIOLENCE AND CULTURE; 6 RATIONALISATION OF EVIL; 7 GROUP BINDING, STEREOTYPING AND IDEOLOGISING; 8 SOCIAL MOBILISATION AND LEADERSHIP; 9 RISING EXPECTATIONS, RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND REDUCTION OF POWER DISTANCE; 10 THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT; 11 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Grid characteristics and group boundaries -- Waning government, democratic deficit, and strategic constellation -- Violence as lacking control of emotions -- Violence and culture -- Rationalization of evil -- Group building, stereotyping, and ideologizing -- Social mobilisation and leadership -- Rising expectations, relative deprivation, and reduction of power distance -- The dynamics of conflict itself -- Conclusions and implications.
Note:
Ciando e-book project
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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