Download or read book Political Violence in Context written by Lorenzo Bosi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Context is crucial to understanding the causes of political violence. This book examines how time, space and supportive milieux shape its pattern and pace. While much existing work focuses on individual psychology or radical ideology, it looks at how context generates mobilisation and shapes patterns of violence. Cases range from Asia, Africa and Europe to the Americas, and encompass separatist guerrillas, Marxist insurgents, Islamist militants, nationalist insurrectionists and the urban violence that has emerged at the boundary between crime and politics