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The Brutalization of the World

From the Retreat of States to Decivilization

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Josepha Laroche

    1. Sorbonne University, Paris, France

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  • Provides a better understanding of new forms of violence and terrorism in today’s world
  • Introduces interdisciplinary approaches to the study of violence
  • Analyzes the capacity of non-state actors to engage in international violence

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Josepha Laroche
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Repression of the Death Drive

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10
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    2. The State’s Hold of the Psychic Economy

      • Josepha Laroche
      Pages 11-32

    3. A Diplomatic Framing of Violence

      • Josepha Laroche
      Pages 33-56

  4. The Return of the Repressed

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. The Sacralization of Interstate Violence

      • Josepha Laroche
      Pages 59-77

    3. The Globalization of Non-state Violence

      • Josepha Laroche
      Pages 79-102

    4. Conclusion

      • Josepha Laroche
      Pages 103-104

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 105-116
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About this book

This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks. Based on interdisciplinary analysis combining political science and psychoanalysis, history and political philosophy, it delves down to the deepest roots of this process of the globalization of non-state violence and offers a new framework for understanding it. The first part of the book addresses the construction of the State and the process of civilization, while the second explains why this process is now being bypassed by processes of brutalization in the form of communitarianism and extreme hate, as well as series of mass murders on a widespread basis. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Josepha Laroche

About the author

Josepha Laroche is a French full professor in Political Science, senior researcher in Political Science at Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She is specialized in International Relations. Her researches deal with two main fields: 1) International Political Economy. 2) Socio-analysis of International Relations where Freudian psychoanalysis concepts are mixed with a sociological approach of International Relations. 

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