Paramilitarism - Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State

From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts. Üngör presents a comparative and global overview of paramilitarism, showing how states use it to successfully outsource mass political violence against civilians.

List 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

About the author

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.

Summary

From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts. Üngör presents a comparative and global overview of paramilitarism, showing how states use it to successfully outsource mass political violence against civilians.

Additional text

This book contributes further to our understanding of [the] key element of the solar eclipse of political violence within the contemporary state and throws further a little light on the pall of counterinsurgency and collusion on the Conflict in Northern Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Ugur Uemit (Associate Professor of Histor Uengoer, Ugur UEmit (Associate Professor of History UEngoer, Ugur Umit (Associate Professor of History Ungor, Ugur Ümit Üngör
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780192865298
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286529-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Geography, HISTORY / Military / General, Geopolitics, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Comparative Politics, General and world history, Modern warfare