Death Squads in Global Perspective
Murder with Deniability
Editors: Campbell, B., Brenner, A. (Eds.)
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Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged, or undertaken by the state itself, which thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of the fundamental characteristics of modern states. Why do such a variety of regimes, under very different circumstances, condone such activity? Death Squads in Global Perspective hopes to answer that question and explain not only their development, but also why they can be expected to proliferate in the early 21st century.
- About the authors
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BRUCE CAMPBELL is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at the College of William and Mary.
ARTHUR D. BRENNER is Assistant Professor of History at Siena College. - Reviews
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'Campbell and Brenner have produced a book based on case studies that is more than the sum of its parts'. - ECPR Newsletter
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical Context
Pages 1-26
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“To Induce a Sense of Terror”: Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926–34 and 1981–95
Pages 27-56
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Feme Murder: Paramilitary “Self-Justice” in Weimar Germany
Pages 57-83
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Window on the Past: A Declassified History of Death Squads in El Salvador
Pages 85-124
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State of Siege: Political Violence and Vigilante Mobilization in the Philippines
Pages 125-151
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Death Squads in Global Perspective
- Book Subtitle
- Murder with Deniability
- Editors
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- B. Campbell
- A. Brenner
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-10814-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230108141
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-21365-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-6094-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 364
- Topics
