TY - BOOK ID - 667693 TI - War, states and contention : a comparative historical study PY - 2015 SN - 9780801453175 9780801479625 0801479622 0801453178 0801456231 080145624X PB - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell university press, DB - UniCat KW - Polemology KW - Politics and war KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - Politique et guerre KW - Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 KW - Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009 KW - Political aspects KW - Aspect politique KW - France KW - United States KW - Italy KW - Etats-Unis KW - Italie KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Histoire KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Politics and war. KW - Political aspects. KW - Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Political aspects - United States KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Political aspects - United States KW - France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799 - Political aspects KW - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Political aspects KW - Italy - Politics and government - 1914-1945 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:667693 AB - For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"-disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war's wake to change regimes or even overthrow states. Tarrow draws on evidence from historical and contemporary cases, including revolutionary France, the United States from the Civil War to the anti-Vietnam War movement, Italy after World War I, and the United States during the decade following 9/11.In the twenty-first century, movements are becoming transnational, and globalization and internationalization are moving war beyond conflict between states. The radically new phenomenon is not that movements make war against states but that states make war against movements. Tarrow finds this an especially troublesome development in recent U.S. history. He argues that that the United States is in danger of abandoning the devotion to rights it had expanded through two centuries of struggle and that Americans are now institutionalizing as a "new normal" the abuse of rights in the name of national security. He expands this hypothesis to the global level through what he calls "the international state of emergency." ER -