The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World
, by Ferguson,R. BrianNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415274128 | 0415274125
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/15/2002
This work explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they challenge the character or very existence of the state. Building upon the anthropological premises of holism and cross-cultural comparison, this volume show how violent challenges to existing states should be conceptualizing as layered problems, with multiple kinds of causes.