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The Resource Ideology and Mass Killing : The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities, Jonathan Leader Maynard, (electronic resource)

Ideology and Mass Killing : The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities, Jonathan Leader Maynard, (electronic resource)

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Ideology and Mass Killing : The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
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Ideology and Mass Killing
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The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
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Jonathan Leader Maynard
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eng
Summary
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist goals and hatreds that motivate ideologically committed killers. But other scholars are sceptical, contending that perpetrators of mass killing rarely seem ideologically committed, and that rational self-interest or powerful social pressures are more important drivers of violence than ideology. In Ideology and Mass Killing, Jonathan Leader Maynard challenges both these prevailing views, advancing an alternative 'neo-ideological' perspective which fundamentally retheorizes the ideological foundations of violence against civilians and synthesizes an emphasis of ideologies, strategic interests, and social pressures. Integrating research from political science, political psychology, history, and sociology, the book demonstrates that ideological justifications are central to the explanation of mass killings, but in ways that go beyond committed belief. Such ideological justifications revolve, moreover, not around extraordinary political goals or hatreds, but radicalized versions of conventional, widely accepted ideas that underpin the politics of security in ordinary societies across the world. Ideology and Mass Killing then substantiates this account through four contrasting case studies of mass killing-Stalinist repression in the USSR 1930-38, the Allied area bombing of Germany and Japan 1940-45, mass atrocities in the Guatemalan civil war 1978-83, and the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. This represents the first volume to offer a dedicated, comparative theory of ideology's role in mass killing, while also developing a powerful new account of how ideology affects violence and politics more generally.--
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  • Mass murder
  • Genocide
  • Terrorism
  • Radicalism
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Ideology and Mass Killing : The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities, Jonathan Leader Maynard, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198776796.001.0001
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Contents
1 Introduction -- 2 Clarifying Ideology -- 3 How Does Ideology Explain Mass Killing? -- 4 The Hardline Justification of Mass Killing -- 5 Stalinist Repression -- 6 Allied Area Bombing in World War II -- 7 Mass Killing in Guatemala's Civil War -- 8 The Rwandan Genocide -- 9 Conclusion
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9780191822797
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1 online resource
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online
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9780198776796
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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remote
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(OCoLC)1257403700
Label
Ideology and Mass Killing : The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities, Jonathan Leader Maynard, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198776796.001.0001
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1 Introduction -- 2 Clarifying Ideology -- 3 How Does Ideology Explain Mass Killing? -- 4 The Hardline Justification of Mass Killing -- 5 Stalinist Repression -- 6 Allied Area Bombing in World War II -- 7 Mass Killing in Guatemala's Civil War -- 8 The Rwandan Genocide -- 9 Conclusion
Control code
9780191822797
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780198776796
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1257403700

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