Stathis Kalyvas, the Logic of Violence and the Immobile Peasant
In 2006, Cambridge University Press published The Logic of Violence in Civil War by the Greek political scientist Stathis Kalyvas. Does it make sense to take a fresh look at this book, which is almost twenty years old, at a time when political scientists’ analyses of civil wars and violence have dev...
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Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain
2024
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | In 2006, Cambridge University Press published The Logic of Violence in Civil War by the Greek political scientist Stathis Kalyvas. Does it make sense to take a fresh look at this book, which is almost twenty years old, at a time when political scientists’ analyses of civil wars and violence have developed considerably, and Kalyvas himself has published numerous articles to build on and sometimes adjust his approach? I think so, for two reasons. The first, objective, reason is that Kalyvas’s book is a seminal one, systematically cited in political science scholarship, and has inspired a series of other analyses of civil wars and violence. The second, more subjective, is that my own reading of this book has evolved over time.This paper is therefore an attempt to formulate my doubts in a clear and, I hope, coherent way, about a book that I still consider to be a major work and which I recommend to anyone interested in political violence. |
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