The state, identity and violence
Subtitle: political disintegration in the post-cold war world
By: edited by R. Brian Ferguson
Contributors: Taylor & Francis
Series: War and society; War and society (Routledge (Firm))
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [ressource e lectronique] :
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780203218310
Subjects: Nation-state; Political violence; International relations; Ethnic relations; The State
Notes: Publie  simultane ment aux E tats-Unis et au Canada.

Comprend des re f. bibliogr. et un index.

Acce  s re serve  aux membres des e tablissements autorise s.
Table of contents: title: 1. Comments on state, identity, and violence / Eric R. Wolf; title: 2. Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states / Joseph A. Tainter; title: 3. The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege / Yale H. Ferguson; title: 4. Tribalism, ethnicity, and the state / David Maybury-Lewis; title: 5. Culture, violence and ethnic nationalism: weighing alternative strategies of explanation and media representation / Kay Warren; title: 6. Civil war in Peru : culture and violence in historical perspective / Linda J. Seligmann; title: 7. "Religious" violence in India : Ayodhya and the Hindu right / Johanna M. Lessinger; title: 8. The specter of superfluity : genesis of schism in the dismantling of Yugoslavia / Bette Denich; title: 9. From the margins to the center : the Macedonian controversy in contemporary Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou; title: 10. Liberia : civil war and the "collapse" of the settler state / Diana Deg. Brown; title: 11. Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state / Helio Belik; title: 12. A Cold War story : the barbarization of Chad (1966-91) / S.P. Reyna; title: 13. The Cold War and chaos in Somalia : a view from the ground / Catherine Besteman; title: 14. Conflicts versus contracts : political flows and blockages in Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.