1st Edition
State Terrorism and Neoliberalism The North in the South
By Ruth Blakeley
Copyright 2009
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship between the use of state terrorism by Northern liberal democracies and efforts by those states to further incorporate the South into the global political economy and to entrench neoliberalism.
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1. Introduction 2. Conceptualising State Terrorism 3. Contextualising State Terrorism: The North and its Foreign Policy Objectives in the South 4. Decolonisation, the Cold War and State Terrorism 5. The Post-Cold War World, Neoliberalism and State Terrorism 6. State Terrorism After 9/11 7. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
Biography
Ruth Blakeley is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Bristol.
