Elizabeth Frazer is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of OxfordKimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London

‘This excellent book offers a very careful, systematic and immensely readable introduction and analysis of the intersection between violence and politics, from Machiavelli to the present day.'Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork, Ireland"[T]here is no comparable text in the English language that approximates the breadth of coverage that the authors achieve."The Review of Politics

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reflections on Politics and ViolenceChapter One: Politics and Revolutionary ViolenceChapter Two: Politics and State ViolenceChapter Three: Politics and Violence ReconsideredChapter Four: Politics as a Continuation of Violence Chapter Five: The Problem of ViolenceChapter Six: Violence and the Transformation of ManChapter Seven: The Politicisation of ViolenceChapter Eight: Towards a Political Theory of ViolenceNotesBibliography

Elizabeth Frazer is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of OxfordKimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London

‘This excellent book offers a very careful, systematic and immensely readable introduction and analysis of the intersection between violence and politics, from Machiavelli to the present day.'Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork, Ireland"[T]here is no comparable text in the English language that approximates the breadth of coverage that the authors achieve."The Review of Politics

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reflections on Politics and ViolenceChapter One: Politics and Revolutionary ViolenceChapter Two: Politics and State ViolenceChapter Three: Politics and Violence ReconsideredChapter Four: Politics as a Continuation of Violence Chapter Five: The Problem of ViolenceChapter Six: Violence and the Transformation of ManChapter Seven: The Politicisation of ViolenceChapter Eight: Towards a Political Theory of ViolenceNotesBibliography

Elizabeth Frazer is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of OxfordKimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London

‘This excellent book offers a very careful, systematic and immensely readable introduction and analysis of the intersection between violence and politics, from Machiavelli to the present day.'Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork, Ireland"[T]here is no comparable text in the English language that approximates the breadth of coverage that the authors achieve."The Review of Politics

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reflections on Politics and ViolenceChapter One: Politics and Revolutionary ViolenceChapter Two: Politics and State ViolenceChapter Three: Politics and Violence ReconsideredChapter Four: Politics as a Continuation of Violence Chapter Five: The Problem of ViolenceChapter Six: Violence and the Transformation of ManChapter Seven: The Politicisation of ViolenceChapter Eight: Towards a Political Theory of ViolenceNotesBibliography