Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism
Author | : Thomas W. Simon |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
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ISBN | : 9781349561698 |
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Author | : Thomas W. Simon |
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Release | : 2016 |
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ISBN | : 9781349561698 |
Author | : Mathias Thaler |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231547684 |
Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to “enhanced interrogation techniques” or to “torture,” whether a person is called a “terrorist” or a “patriot.” Do these decisions reflect the rigorous application of commonly accepted criteria, or are they determined by power structures and partisanship? How is the language we use for violence entangled with the fight against it? In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly identify, understand, and respond to violence. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence. Through storytelling, hypothetical situations, and genealogies, the imagination can help us see when definitions of violence need to be revisited by shedding new light on prevalent norms and uncovering the contingent history of ostensibly self-evident beliefs. Naming Violence demonstrates the importance of political theory to debates about violence across a number of different disciplines from film studies to history.
Author | : Thomas W. Simon |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137415118 |
We are understandably reluctant to "rank" moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W. Simon argues that politicians use this to manipulate our sense of injustice by exaggerating terrorism and minimizing torture. He advocates for an international criminal code that encourages humanitarian intervention.
Author | : Claudia Card |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-07-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139491709 |
In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. Card analyses torture, terrorism and genocide in the light of recent atrocities, considering whether there can be moral justifications for terrorism and torture, and providing conceptual tools to distinguish genocide from non-genocidal mass slaughter.
Author | : Neil J. Kressel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2019-03-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429711271 |
This book draws together the results of six decades of research on the psychology of mass hate. It focuses on situations where large portions of nations or cultural groups have participated in mass murder, acts of terror, or other atrocities against unarmed civilians.
Author | : Steven P. Lee |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2006-11-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1402046782 |
This book asks whether just war theory and its rules for determining when war is justified remains adequate to the challenges posed by contemporary developments. Some argue that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this complex set of issues with insight and clarity.
Author | : Marjorie Cohn |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814769829 |
Torture has been a topic of national discussion ever since it was revealed that “enhanced interrogation techniques” had been authorized as part of the war on terror. The United States and Torture provides us with a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture, one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to “enemies,” ever since. The United States and Torture opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable treatment she endured in Guatemala in 1987 at the hands of the the Guatemalan government, which was supported by the United States. Following Ortiz's preface, an interdisciplinary panel of experts offers one of the most comprehensive examinations of torture to date, beginning with the Cold War era and ending with today's debate over accountability for torture.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alette Smeulers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-22 |
Genre | : Genocide |
ISBN | : 9781032568027 |
Drawing on thirty years of research, in this book Alette Smeulers explores the perpetrators of mass atrocities such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and terrorism.
Author | : Cecilia Menjívar |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2009-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292778503 |
Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cost for Latin America has been enormous—thousands of Latin Americans have been murdered, disappeared, or tortured, and whole communities have been terrorized into silence. Organized by region, the essays in this book address the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways. Most take the perspective that state-directed political violence is a modern development of a regional political structure in which U.S. political interests weigh heavily. Others acknowledge that Latin American states enthusiastically received U.S. support for their campaigns of terror. A few see local culture and history as key factors in the implementation of state campaigns of political violence. Together, all the essays exemplify how technologies of terror have been transferred among various Latin American countries, with particular attention to the role that the United States, as a "strong" state, has played in such transfers.