Can Political Violence Ever Be Justified?

by Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings

Book Overview

Violence - from state coercion to riots, wars and revolutions - remains an enduring reality around the globe. But whereas it is often believed that the point of constitutional politics is to make violence unnecessary, others argue that it is unavoidably an element of political action.

In this provocative book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings address these issues and ask whether the use of violence can ever be justified in politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509529217
• ISBN13: 9781509529216
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 7.4"