TY - BOOK ID - 37283275 TI - Political insults : how offenses escalate conflict PY - 2014 SN - 9780199372836 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Intergroup relations KW - Invective KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Change KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Abuse, Verbal KW - Insults KW - Insults, Verbal KW - Verbal abuse KW - Vituperation KW - Satire KW - Conflict, Intergroup KW - Intergroup conflict KW - Relations, Intergroup KW - Social interaction KW - Language and languages KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37283275 AB - This title proposes a theory of international insult that focuses on interrelations between social identity and power. The book analyses conflicts between the US and North Korea, sovereignty contestations around islands in the Japanese sea, Pussy Riot in Russia, veterans in Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh. ER -