The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination, and Recurrence

ISBN-13: 9780197654927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Christian Davenport; Benjamin Appel

Recenzje

This book represents a tour de force that is a must-read for all interested in stopping state repression—from scholars, to policymakers, activists, and the general public. The authors offer a new ontology of repression to study its onset, escalation, duration, and recurrence. They then meticulously examine the influence of a full range of domestic and international factors that have been proposed to curtail repression. Their sobering findings reveal that not much has helped, but there is hope, and we can do better. Indeed, the book offers a path forward to understand exactly how we can better protect people from the most vicious forms of state repression.

O autorze

Christian Davenport is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Elected Fellow at the American Association for the Arts and Sciences. Benjamin J. Appel is Associate Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego.