The Brutalization of the World

This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks. Based on interdisciplinary analysis combining political science and psychoanalysis, history and political philosophy, it delves down to the deepest roots of this process of the globalization of non-state violence and offers a new framework for understanding it. The first part of the book addresses the construction of the State and the process of civilization, while the second explains why this process is now being bypassed by processes of brutalization in the form of communitarianism and extreme hate, as well as series of mass murders on a widespread basis.

Provides a better understanding of new forms of violence and terrorism in today's world Introduces interdisciplinary approaches to the study of violence Analyzes the capacity of non-state actors to engage in international violence

Autorentext
Josepha Laroche is a French full professor in Political Science, senior researcher in Political Science at Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She is specialized in International Relations. Her researches deal with two main fields: 1) International Political Economy. 2) Socio-analysis of International Relations where Freudian psychoanalysis concepts are mixed with a sociological approach of International Relations.

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Repression of the Death Drive: The State's Seizure of the Psychic Economy.- A Diplomatic Frameing of Violence.- The Return of the Repressed: The Sacralization of Interstate Violence.- The Globalization of Non-state Violence.- Conclusion.- Glossary.- Sel