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1. Statebuilding and State-Formation

   The Political Sociology of Intervention

   Edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding. Using process-oriented approaches, the contributing authors explore what happens when conscious efforts at statebuilding ‘meet’ social contexts,...

   Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Micro-Sociology of Violence

   Deciphering patterns and dynamics of collective violence

   Edited by Jutta Bakonyi, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

   This book aims at a deeper understanding of social processes, dynamics and institutions shaping collective violence. It argues that violence is a social practice that adheres to social logics and, in its collective form, appears as recurrent patterns. In search of characteristics, mechanisms and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge