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Death Squads in Global Perspective

Murder with Deniability

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Bruce B. Campbell
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  2. Arthur D. Brenner
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Death Squads Definition, Problems, and Historical Context

    1. Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical Context

      • Bruce B. Campbell
      Pages 1-26

  6. National, Ethnic, and Religious Identity Conflict

    1. The Rise and Fall of Apartheid’s Death Squads, 1969–93

      • Keith Gottschalk
      Pages 229-259

    2. India’s Secret Armies

      • Patricia Gossman
      Pages 261-286

    3. Territoriality and Plausible Deniability: Serbian Paramilitaries in the Bosnian War

      • James Ron
      Pages 287-312

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 313-364
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About this book

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.

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'Campbell and Brenner have produced a book based on case studies that is more than the sum of its parts'. - ECPR Newsletter

About the authors

BRUCE 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.

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