Kenton Worcester is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marymount Manhattan College. Sally AveryBermanzhon and Mark Ungar are both Assistant Professors of Political Science at Brooklyn College.

"Anyone who doubts that violence is endemic, pervasive, and central to the operations of the modern world system should read Violence and Politics. It shows us the range of the objects of violence and the multiplicity of its forms. A crucial aid to lucid thinking." -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University"The violence that targeted the economic and military pulses of American power has tested once again the peaceful promises of globalization. While edited before the attack on America, the insightful essays contained in Violence and Politics illuminate critical and multifaceted dimensions of violence in a globalized world. This reader could not have been timelier for students and scholars interested in grappling with the dark side of globalization." -- Micheline Ishay, University of Denver

• Introduction Violence and Politics, Mark Ungar, Sally Avery Bermanzohn, Kenton Worcester PART ONE: States, Social Groups and Contentious Politics 1. Violent and Nonviolent Trajectories in Contentious Politics, Charles Tilly 2. Private Armies and the Decline of the State, Ulric Shannon 3. State Violence and LGBT Rights, Mark Ungar 4. Globalization, Weak States and the Death Toll in Asia, Bridget Welsh 5. Political Islam: Inclusion or Violence?, Najib Ghadbian 6. State Rape: Sexual Violence as Genocide, Lisa Sharlach Part Two: Identities, Adversaries and Democratic Values 7. From Protest to Retribution: The Guerrilla Politics of Pro-life Violence 8. Violence, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the US Civil Rights Movement, Sally Avery Bermanzohn 9. Ethno-national Conflicts, Democratization and Hate Crime, Roger MacGinty 10. Economics, Violence and Protest in Venezuela: A Preview of the Global Future?, Margarita Lopez Maya, Luis E. Lander, and Mark Ungar 11. The Clash Within: Intrapsychically Created Enemies and their Roles in Ethno-nationalist Conflict, Jeffrey Murer 12. Fear and Democracy, John Keane