State Terror, State Violence: Global Perspectives (staat – Souveränität – Nation)
by Bettina Koch /
2015 / English / PDF
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The volume critically discusses theoretical discourses and
theoretically informed case studies on state violence and state
terror. How do states justify their acts of violence? How are
these justifications critiqued? Although legally state terrorism
does not exist, some states nonetheless commit acts of violence
that qualify as state terror as a social fact. In which cases and
under what circumstances do (illegitimate) acts of violence
qualify as state terrorism? Geographically, the volume covers
cases and discourses from the Caucasus, South East and Central
Asia, the Middle East, and North America.
The volume critically discusses theoretical discourses and
theoretically informed case studies on state violence and state
terror. How do states justify their acts of violence? How are
these justifications critiqued? Although legally state terrorism
does not exist, some states nonetheless commit acts of violence
that qualify as state terror as a social fact. In which cases and
under what circumstances do (illegitimate) acts of violence
qualify as state terrorism? Geographically, the volume covers
cases and discourses from the Caucasus, South East and Central
Asia, the Middle East, and North America.