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A savage order : how the world's deadliest countries can forge a path to security / Rachel Kleinfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleinfeld, Rachel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internal security--Cross-cultural studies.
- Internal security.
- Human security--Cross-cultural studies.
- Human security.
- National security--Cross-cultural studies.
- National security.
- Violence--Prevention.
- Violence.
- Violence--Government policy.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Drawing on fifteen years of firsthand field research, a foreign policy expert describes how extreme violence cripples democracies and discusses how some societies have successfully fought massive violence and reclaimed security.
- Contents:
- The problem
- Violence today
- Privilege violence
- Decivilization
- The solution
- Dirty deals
- The middle class
- Political movements
- Politicians
- Recivilization
- Centralization and surveillance
- Next steps
- Society maintains the peace
- What can we do?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-455) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781101871997
- 1101871997
- OCLC:
- 1047525374
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