War, states, and contention : a comparative historical study / / Sidney Tarrow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814015603321
• Autore: Tarrow Sidney G.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-8014-5623-1; 0-8014-7962-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 355.02
• Soggetti: Politics and war; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Political aspects - United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Political aspects - United States; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Political aspects; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Political aspects; Italy Politics and government 1914-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: War, states, and contention -- War and movements in the building of new states -- A movement-state goes to war: France, 1789-799 -- A movement makes war: civil war and reconstruction -- A war makes movements: the strange death of liberal Italy -- Endless wars -- From statist war to composite wars -- Wars at home, 1917-1975 -- The war at home, 2001-2013 -- The American state of terror -- Contesting hegemony -- Internationalization and contention -- The dark side of internationalism.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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."