| Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Campbell, B. (Editor), Brenner, A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403960941 ISBN-13: 9781403960948 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: This groundbreaking examination of death squads, which exist worldwide, provides a historical perspective of how governments use death squads and how the participation of non-state forces is an extreme instance of the "subcontracting" of tasks characteristic of modern states. Death squads are not simply a product of the Cold War, or of "weak" third-world nations, but are linked to a crisis of the modern state. This collection brings experts from around the world to look at death squads in places such as El Salvador, Weimar Germany, Bosnia, India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Globalization - History | Social History - Political Science | Imperialism |
| Dewey: 303.625 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.58" W x 8.36" (0.95 lbs) 364 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? Death Squads in Global Perspective 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. |