Shadows of War Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Shadows of War Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780520242418

ISBN-10: 0520242416

ISBN-13: 9780520242418

Edition: 2005

Authors: Carolyn Nordstrom

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In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century.Shadows of Waris grounded in ethnographic research carried out at the epicenters of political violence on several continents. Its pages are populated not only with the perpetrators and victims of war but also with the scoundrels, silent heroes, and average families who live their lives in the midst of…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introductions



Prologue



A Conversation in a Bar at the Front



Making Things Invisible



War



Finding the Front Lines



Violence



Power



Shadows



Entering the Shadows



A First Exploratory Definition of the Shadows



The Cultures of the Shadows: The Meat, Potatoes, Diamonds, and Guns of Daily Life



Peace?



The Institutionalization of the Shadows: (Habits of War Mar Landscapes of Peace)



The Autobiography of a Man Called Peace



The Time of Not-War-Not-Peace



Peace



The Problems with Peace



Dangerous Profits



Ironies in the Shadows: (Literally) Untold Profits and a Key Source of Development



Why Don't We Study the Shadows?



Epilogue: Two Sides of the Same Coin


Postscript: The War of the Month Club--Iraq


Notes


Bibliography


Index