Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns
Janice E. Thomson
230 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0691025711
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Language: English
Publish: July 22, 1996
The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.