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9780312213657

Death Squads in Global Perspective : Murder with Deniability

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    9780312213657

  • ISBN10:

    0312213654

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-04-22
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This groundbreaking examination of death squads, which exist worldwide, provides a historical perspective of how governments use death squads and how the participation of non-state forces is an extreme instance of the "subcontracting" of tasks characteristic of modern states. Death squads are not simply a product of the Cold War, or of "weak" third-world nations, but are linked to a crisis of the modern state. This collection brings experts from around the world to look at death squads in places such as El Salvador, Weimar Germany, Bosnia, India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa.

Author Biography

Bruce B. 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.

Table of Contents

Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical Context--Bruce B. Campbell * I. Historical Cases * "To Induce a Sense of Terror": Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-1934 and 1981-1995--Michael J. Schroeder * Feme<I/> Murder: Paramilitary "Self Justice" in Weimar Germany--Arthur D. Brenner * II. Democratic Regime Transitions * Window on the Past: A Declassified History of Death Squads in El Salvador--Cynthia J. Arnson * Stage of Siege: Poitical Violence and Vigilante Mobilization in the Phillipines--Eva-Lotta Hedman * III. Social Control * State Terrorism and Death Squads in Uganda (1971-79)--Edward Kannyo * From Petrus to Ninja: Death Squads in Indonesia--Robert Cribb * Modernity and Devolution: The Making of Police Death Squads in Modern Brazil--Martha K. Huggins * IV. National, Ethnic, and Religious Identity Conflict * The Rise and Fall of Apartheid's Death Squads, 1963-1993--Keith Gottschalk * India's Secret Armies--Patricia Gossman * Territoriality and Plausible Deniability: Serbian Paramilitaries in the Bosnian War--James Ron * Appendix: Other Death Squad Cases
Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical Context--Bruce B. Campbell * I. Historical Cases * "To Induce a Sense of Terror": Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-1934 and 1981-1995--Michael J. Schroeder * Feme<I/> Murder: Paramilitary "Self Justice" in Weimar Germany--Arthur D. Brenner * II. Democratic Regime Transitions * Window on the Past: A Declassified History of Death Squads in El Salvador--Cynthia J. Arnson * Stage of Siege: Poitical Violence and Vigilante Mobilization in the Phillipines--Eva-Lotta Hedman * III. Social Control * State Terrorism and Death Squads in Uganda (1971-79)--Edward Kannyo * From Petrus to Ninja: Death Squads in Indonesia--Robert Cribb * Modernity and Devolution: The Making of Police Death Squads in Modern Brazil--Martha K. Huggins * IV. National, Ethnic, and Religious Identity Conflict * The Rise and Fall of Apartheid's Death Squads, 1963-1993--Keith Gottschalk * India's Secret Armies--Patricia Gossman * Territoriality and Plausible Deniability: Serbian Paramilitaries in the Bosnian War--James Ron * Appendix: Other Death Squad Cases

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