The state, identity and violence [electronic resource] : political disintegration in the post-cold war world / edited by R. Brian Ferguson.

Contributor(s): Ferguson, R. Brian | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: War and society (Routledge (Firm))Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: vi, 328 pSubject(s): Political violence | Political violence -- Case studies | State, The | Nation-state | Ethnic relations | International relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.6 LOC classification: JC328.6 | .S7 2003Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Comments on state, identity, and violence / Eric R. Wolf -- Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states / Joseph A. Tainter -- The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege / Yale H. Ferguson -- Tribalism, ethnicity, and the state / David Maybury-Lewis -- Culture, violence and ethnic nationalism: weighing alternative strategies of explanation and media representation / Kay Warren -- Civil war in Peru: culture and violence in historical perspective / Linda J. Seligmann -- 'Religious' violence in India: Ayodhya and the Hindu right / Johanna M. Lessinger -- The specter of superfluity: genesis of schism in the dismantling of Yugoslavia / Bette Denich -- From the margins to the center: the Macedonian controversy in contemporary Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou -- Liberia: civil war and the 'collapse' of the settler state / Diana Deg. Brown -- Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state / Helio Belik -- A Cold War story: the barbarization of Chad (1966-91) / S.P. Reyna -- The Cold War and chaos in Somalia: a view from the ground / Catherine Besteman -- Conflicts versus contracts: political flows and blockages in Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comments on state, identity, and violence / Eric R. Wolf -- Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states / Joseph A. Tainter -- The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege / Yale H. Ferguson -- Tribalism, ethnicity, and the state / David Maybury-Lewis -- Culture, violence and ethnic nationalism: weighing alternative strategies of explanation and media representation / Kay Warren -- Civil war in Peru: culture and violence in historical perspective / Linda J. Seligmann -- 'Religious' violence in India: Ayodhya and the Hindu right / Johanna M. Lessinger -- The specter of superfluity: genesis of schism in the dismantling of Yugoslavia / Bette Denich -- From the margins to the center: the Macedonian controversy in contemporary Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou -- Liberia: civil war and the 'collapse' of the settler state / Diana Deg. Brown -- Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state / Helio Belik -- A Cold War story: the barbarization of Chad (1966-91) / S.P. Reyna -- The Cold War and chaos in Somalia: a view from the ground / Catherine Besteman -- Conflicts versus contracts: political flows and blockages in Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.

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