Death squads in global perspective : murder with deniability / edited by Bruce B. Campbell and Arthur D. Brenner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Bruce, 1955-

Brenner, Arthur David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death squads.

Physical Description:

xvii, 364 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical Context / Bruce B. Campbell 1

I Historical Cases

2. "To Induce a Sense of Terror": Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-34 and 1981-95 / Michael J. Schroeder 27

3. Feme Murder: Paramilitary "Self-Justice" in Weimar Germany / Arthur D. Brenner 57

II Democratic Regime Transitions

4. Window on the Past: A Declassified History of Death Squads in El Salvador / Cynthia J. Arnson 85

5. State of Siege: Political Violence and Vigilante Mobilization in the Philippines / Eva-Lotta Hedman 125

III Social Control

6. State Terrorism and Death Squads in Uganda (1971-79) / Edward Kannyo 153

7. From Petrus to Ninja: Death Squads in Indonesia / Robert Cribb 181

8. Modernity and Devolution: The Making of Police Death Squads in Modern Brazil / Martha K. Huggins 203

IV National, Ethnic, and Religious Identity Conflict

9. The Rise and Fall of Apartheid's Death Squads, 1969-93 / Keith Gottschalk 229

10. India's Secret Armies / Patricia Gossman 261

11. Territoriality and Plausible Deniability: Serbian Paramilitaries in the Bosnian War / James Ron 287

Appendix Death Squad Cases: A Short Summary 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-348) and index.

ISBN:

0312213654

OCLC:

43370577