Violent Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780521603102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str.

Daniel Ross

Opis

Challenging conventional wisdom, Daniel Ross demonstrates how violence is an integral part of the democratic system, from its origins as well as its globalized future. Ross analyzes controversial examples of global terrorism and security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the relationship of colonial powers to indigenous populations, and the treatment of asylum seekers in this context.

Recenzje

'This highly-topical book examines how democracies are trying to cope with the potentially endless war on terrorism. The author argues that the origin and heart of democracy is essentially violent and that the threat of terrorist attack is not only exposing new forms of 'democratic violence' but could transform the very character of the democracies we seek to defend. Do we have the right, for example, to bring democracy to others by force? A revealing and disturbing work that every democratic leader should study while there is still time.' Phillip Knightley, author of The Second Oldest Profession

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The high horse and the low road; 2. Strangers in a familiar land; 3. Sorry we killed you; 4. The great debate; 5. Border protection and alien friends; 6. Enemy combatants.