Code Name: Baby by Christina Skye

Code Name: Baby by Christina Skye

This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation studies, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive use of official documents and in-depth interviews, della Porta explains the actors' construction of external political reality. The empirical data are used to build a middle-range theory on political violence that incorporates an analysis of the interactions between social movements and the state at the macro-level, an analysis of the development of radical organizations as entrepreneurs for political violence at the meso-level, and an analysis of the construction of militant identities and countercultures at the micro-level. By studying the social movement families from within which violence emerges, linking social movements to institutions, and, finally, providing a systematic analysis - firmly grounded in history - of the nature of political violence, the author has created a masterful synthesis that will help secure a place for the study of political violence in the study of systemwide politics.

Christina Skye is a Ph.D. holder. in Chinese poetry from the past She has traveled extensively throughout China and Asia and has been featured on Geraldo! She coordinated one of the most well-attended shows at the National Geographic Society's Explorer Hall in Washington and wrote four critically acclaimed books on Chinese art, one of which was described by the London Times as beautifully and tenderly made. She started writing fiction in 1990 and has since published 16 books.

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ISBN 13	9780373770694
ISBN 10	0373770693
Title	Code Name: Baby
Author	Christina Skye
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hqn
Year published	2005-10-25
Number of pages	384
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