``... the pressing need to assess the historical legacy of the monopoly of the nation state over the use of ‘legitimate’ violence. This was supposed to be a ‘civilising’ process, which would curb violence (civil war and violent crime) within the borders of the nation state. Aggressive and destructive instincts are tamed by restriction and order, and this is what ‘civilisation’ as a historical and sociological process attempted to achieve (Elias 2000; Freud 1961). But it gave rise to new forms of external violence on a scale and of a degree of cruelty that are almost too horrific to grasp – two world wars and the modern practice of genocide. If the nation state with its monopoly over ‘legitimate’ violence was capable of placing its subjects under a permanent cloud of threatened violence, from either real or invented enemies, or from its own apparatus, can we then continue to consider this monopoly ‘civilising’?`` -- Hezzat and Kaldor books.google.tr/books?id=HmNsP9HYCm4C&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=%E2%80%98NOT+EVEN+A+TREE%E2%80%99:+DELEGITIMISING+VIOLENCE+AND+THE+PROSPECTS+FOR+PRE-EMPTIVE+CIVILITY+Heba+Raouf+Ezzat+and+Mary+Kaldor&source=bl&ots=GEzjfz278S&sig=A97ImW_mnDgcUKN3p0c5B_IJhbs&hl=no&sa=X&ei=7uJTUrHMJoLctAa3_4DoCg&ved=0CGYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%98NOT%20EVEN%20A%20TREE%E2%80%99%3A%20DELEGITIMISING%20VIOLENCE%20AND%20THE%20PROSPECTS%20FOR%20PRE-EMPTIVE%20CIVILITY%20Heba%20Raouf%20Ezzat%20and%20Mary%20Kaldor&f=false
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:54:05 +0000
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