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A Bibliography of Political Science Resources on the Study of Political Violence
This bibliography contains several sections:

I.  Terrorism and Counter Terrorism
II.  Civil War and State Failure
III.  Peacekeeping Operations and Nation Building
IV.  International Security in a Changing World
VII.  Genocide, Politicide, and Human Rights
VI.  Regional Studies (below)
VII.  Data Sets

VI. Regional Studies

[Exemplary Book Length Works]

United States and North America

-Abelmann, Nancy and John Lie 1995. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

-Ayers, Edward L. 1984. Vengeance and Justice, Crime and Punishment in the 19^th Century American South. New York: Oxford University Press.

-Foner, Eric. 1988. Reconstruction: American's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and Row.

-Green, Donald P., Dara Z. Strolovitch, and Janelle S. Wong. 1998. "Defended Neighborhoods, Integration and Racially Motivated Crime." American Journal of Sociology 104(2): 372-403.

- Graham, Hugh Davis. 1970. "The Paradox of American Violence: A Historical Appraisal. " Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 391: 74-82.

-Litwack, Leon F. 1979. Been in the Storm So Long. New York: Vintage Books.

-O'Brien, Gail Williams. 1999. The color of the law: race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press.

-Olzak, Susan. 1992. The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict. Stanford, C.A.: Stanford University Press.

-Pinderhughes, Howard. 1993. "The Anatomy of Racially Motivated Violence in New York City: A Case Study of Youth in Southern Brooklyn." Social Problems 40(4): 478-492.

-"Racial Violence against Asian Americans." 1993. Harvard Law Review 106(8): 1926-1943.

-Rubinowitz, Leonard S. and Imani Perry. 2002. "Crimes Without Punishment: White Neighbors' Resistance to Black Entry." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 92:335-427.

-The Southern Poverty Law Center. 1987. "Move-in" Violence: White Resistance to Neighborhood Integration in the 1980s.

-Sugrue, Thomas J. 1996. The Origins of Urban Crisis, Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

-Werner, John M. 1986. Reaping the bloody harvest: race riots in the United States during the age of Jackson, 1824-1849. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Latin America and Caribbean

-Gustavo Gorriti. 1999. The Shining Path: A History of Millenarian War in Peru. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press.

-McClintock, Cynthia. 1998. Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador's FMLN and Peru's Shining Path. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press.

-Wood, Elisabeth. 2004. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Western and Central Europe

-Boehm, Christopher. 1984. Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania

-Della Porta, Donatella. 1995. Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A comparative analysis of Italy and Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press.

-English, Richard. 2003. Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA. London: Macmillan.

-Glenny, Misha. 1996. The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War, 3^rd rev. ed. New York: Penguin.

-Kalyvas, Stathis. 2006. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press.

-McGarry, John and Brendan O'Leary. Explaining Northern Ireland. Oxford: Blackwell

-Woodward, Susan L. 1995. Balkan Tragedy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

-Barany, Zoltan and Robert Moser 2005. Ethnic Politics after Communism. Ithaca: Cornell

-Derluguian, Georgi. 2005. Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

-Perry, Duncan M. 1988. The Politics of Terror: The Macedonian Revolutionary Movements, 1893-1903. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

-Tishkov, Valery. 1997. Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and After the Soviet Union. London: Sage

Sub-Saharan Africa

-Ballentine, Karen and Michael Nest, eds. 2005. The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace. Boulder, C.O.: Lynne Rienner.

-Clapham, Christopher, ed. 1998. African Guerillas. Oxford: James Currey.

-Deng, Francis M. 1995. War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan. Washington, D.C.: Brookings

-Ellis, Stephen 1999. The Mask of Anarcy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War. New York: NYU Press

-Keen, David. 2005. Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

-Minter, William. 1994. Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique. London: Zed Books.

-Nzongola-Ntjala, Georges. 2002. The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History. London: Zed Books.

Middle East and North Africa

-Hutchinson, Martha Crenshaw. 1978. Revolutionary Terrorism: The FLN in Algeria, 1954-1962. Stanford, C.A.: Hoover Institution Press.

-Johnson, Douglas Hamilton. 2003. The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. Bloomington, I.N.: Indiana University Press.

-Ranstorp, Magnus. 1996. Hizb'allah in Lebanon: the politics of the western hostage crisis. New York: St. Martin's Press.

-Rashid, Ahmed 2000. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven. Yale.

-Rubin, Barry. 1994. Revolution Until Victory? The Politics and History of the PLO Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Asia

-Brass, Paul 2003. The Production of Hindu-Muslim violence in Contemporary India. 2003. Seattle: University of Washington

-Elliot, David W.P. 2003. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975. London: M.E. Sharpe.

-Heehs, Peter. 1993. The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India, 1900-1910. New York: Oxford University Press.

-Lifton, Alexander Laban 2005. Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press

-Pye, Lucian. 1956. Guerilla Communism in Malaysia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

-Varshney, Ashutosh 2002. Ethnic Conflict and Civil Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven: Yale University Press

-Wilkinson, Steven 2004. Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press