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Government Violence and Repression - An Agenda for Research (Hardcover)
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Government Violence and Repression - An Agenda for Research (Hardcover)
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A form of terrorism that is receiving increased attention is human
rights abuses on the part of individual states. This study, written
by specialists from several countries, attempts to define the
parameters of state terrorism, analyze its causes, and identify the
types of data and methods needed for policy-relevant research. It
focuses on state use of acts of terror to intimidate, "pacify,"
coerce, or destroy whole populations, groups, or classes of
citizens. The problems encountered in the study of state terrorism,
particularly in the areas of definition and measurement and in the
difficulty of obtaining complete and reliable data, are first
discussed. The political origins of state violence and the
mechanisms that sustain it are traced in a theoretical analysis,
and the relation of national security ideology to the imposition of
terrorist measures is explored. The forms of state terrorism and
repression encountered in the Third World are considered next.
Other topics covered include genocide, terrorism and
counterterrorism in the context of democratic society, and the
international terrorist impact of superpower politics. Finally, the
prospects of bringing state terrorism under the control of
international law are assessed.
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