Paramilitarism Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State

by Üngör, Ugur Ümit

• ISBN13: 9780192865298
• ISBN10: 0192865293
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192558992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-10-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Ugur Ümit Üngör, Associate Professor of History, Utrecht University

Ugur Ümit Üngör is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. His main area of interest is the historical sociology of mass violence in the Middle East. He is an editor of the Journal of Perpetrator
Research, and coordinator of the Syrian Oral History Project. He is the author of the award-winning The Making of Modern Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2011) and is currently writing a monograph on mass violence in Syria.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Old Wine in New Bottles?
2. Paramilitarism's Long Twentieth Century
3. Organized Crime, the State, and Paramilitarism
4. The Organization of Paramilitarism
5. Conclusion: the complexity of paramilitarism
Select Bibliography
Index