Terrorism, Civil War, and Revolution: Revolution and International Politics, 3rd Edition

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Explores the nature and possibility of revolution and civil strife in the context of international politics. This title analyzes the role of revolution and civil strife in the present day world. It looks into such key issues as the use of force by the state in the international system, challenges to states, wars of national liberation, and more.

Peter Calvert was Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Politics at the University of Southampton, UK. A political scientist, writer, and educator, Calvert began his career as a regular British Army enlistment with the Intelligence Corps before moving to academia as a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at Birkbeck College, London, and at the University of Portsmouth. In 1984, he was appointed to a personal Chair with the title of Professor of Comparative and International Politics at Southampton. He served as co-editor of the journal Democratization from 1996 to 2007 and was also the co-editor of the Frank Cass/Longman book series on democratization. In addition, he has published about 20 books and his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish.

"Words are prostitutes. Any terminology useful to the powerful or ambitious will be garbled and reinterpreted, often to counter its original meaning. Terms relating to conflict, or the use of violence and fear, are particularly vulnerable to such abuse. Thus Peter Calvert's latest book should be a must read not only for scholars and policy makers but also for all who are lost in the bewildering cacophony that passes these days for public discourse. Drawing upon extraordinarily broad and deep familiarity with the history of social change and its concomitant social struggle, Calvert salvages the integrity of abused concepts and sorts out fact from fiction, And he offers guidance that we must hope will lead to sounder analysis and policy decisions." --Jan Knippers Black, Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies and author of The Politics of Human Rights Protection (2010)