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Rummel, R. J.

 
9781560002970: Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence
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ISBN 10: 1560002972 ISBN 13: 9781560002970
Editorial: Routledge, 1997

Sinopsis

This volume, newly published in paperback, is part of a comprehensive effort by R. J. Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder, or what he calls democide. It is the fifth in a series of volumes in which he offers a detailed analysis of the 120,000,000 people killed as a result of government action or direct intervention.

In Power Kills, Rummel offers a realistic and practical solution to war, democide, and other collective violence. As he states it, "The solution...is to foster democratic freedom and to democratize coercive power and force. That is, mass killing and mass murder carried out by government is a result of indiscriminate, irresponsible Power at the center."

Rummel observes that well-established democracies do not make war on and rarely commit lesser violence against each other. The more democratic two nations are, the less likely is war or smaller-scale violence between them. The more democratic a nation is, the less severe its overall foreign violence, the less likely it will have domestic collective violence, and the less its democide. Rummel argues that the evidence supports overwhelmingly the most important fact of our time: democracy is a method of nonviolence.

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R. J. Rummel

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This volume is the most recent of a comprehensive effort by R. J. Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder, or what he calls democide. It is the fifth in a series of volumes in which he offers a detailed analysis of the 120,000,000 people killed as a result of government action or direct intervention. In Power Kills, Rummel offers a realistic and practical solution to war, democide, and other collective violence. Rummel observes that well-established democracies do not make war on and rarely commit lesser violence against each other. The more democratic two nations are, the less likely is war or smaller-scale violence between them. The more democratic a nation is, the less severe its overall foreign violence, the less likely it will have domestic collective violence, and the less its democide. Rummel argues that the evidence supports overwhelmingly the most important fact of our time: democracy is a method of nonviolence.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1560002972
ISBN 13 
9781560002970
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
256
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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München
80331
Alemania

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9780765805232: Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence

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ISBN 10:  0765805235 ISBN 13:  9780765805232
Editorial: Routledge, 2002
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