1: Introduction: old wine in new bottles?
2: Paramilitarism's Long Twentieth Century
3: Organized Crime, the State, and Paramilitarism
4: The Organization of Paramilitarism
5: Conclusion: the complexity of paramilitarism
U&gur Ümit Üngör is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War,
Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. His main area of interest is the
historical sociology of mass violence in the Middle East. He is an
editor of the Journal of Perpetrator Research, and coordinator of
the Syrian Oral History Project. He is the author of the
award-winning The Making of Modern
Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2011) and is currently writing a
monograph on mass violence in Syria.
Historically based and yet inspiringly contemporary in its analysis
and relevance, it shows that 'paramilitarism', as Üngör states in
his concluding sentence, 'is here to stay' (p. 194), not least in
its legacies of civic and state fragmentation.
*Gregor Kranjc, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, The
English Historical Review*
Drawing on historical and cultural examples, this well-researched
volume is a strong new addition to political science, military
studies, and organized crime collections.
*G. B. Osborne, CHOICE*
Üngör's excellent book will become the point of departure for much
new study of the phenomenon of paramilitarism in the modern
period.
*John Paul Newman, E-International Relations*
Üngör offers an in-depth and panoramic view of paramilitarism in a
highly sophisticated analysis that successfully combines historical
and sociological scholarship. This is a first historical
sociological exploration of paramilitarism in all its forms and as
such will attract attention across many disciplines.
*Siniša Malešević, University College, Dublin, Journal of Political
Power*
Excellent ... [Üngör] pulls off quite a feat - covering no end of
ground, showing command of his subject and sources, making serious
but not portentous points, and - last but not least - keeping quite
succinct.
*Professional Security*
This book contributes further to our understanding of [the] key
element of the solar eclipse of political violence within the
contemporary state and throws further a little light on the pall of
counterinsurgency and collusion on the Conflict in Northern
Ireland.
*Chris Stanley, Village Magazine*
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