One for All - Russell Hardin

One for All

The Logic of Group Conflict

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Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
1995
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-04350-0 (ISBN)
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This study of group conflict in its most destructive forms argues that group violence cannot always be attributed to irrational, primordial instinct. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic wars, it describes how social and economic circumstances set the violence in motion.
In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers an explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda, he describes the social and economic circumstances that set this violence into motion. Hardin explains why hatred alone does not necessarily start wars but how leaders cultivate it to mobilize their people. He also reveals the thinking behind the pre-emptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway.
Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge. In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests - mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies.

Russell Hardin, Professor of Politics at New York University, is the author of numerous works, including Morality within the Limits of Reason and Collective Action. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 624 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-691-04350-7 / 0691043507
ISBN-13 978-0-691-04350-0 / 9780691043500
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