Na krilima patriotisma—On the Wings of Patriotism

Delegated and Spin-Off Violence in Serbia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7664995
AutoresKlaus Schlichte (0000-0002-8477-872X, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas310-326
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0095327x09339897
OpenAlexW2008325795
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas4

This article addresses the causes and dynamics of spin-off violence by paramilitary groups that developed in Serbia in the early 1990s. It shows that some forms of violence that challenge the state’s monopoly come into being due to decisions of state agencies. But delegated violence easily develops a life of its own, and therefore the decisions of state leaders are not the only variable, perhaps not even an important one, needed to explain the dynamics of violence once the turmoil of war has started. In retrospect, it seems as if warfare was just an episode in the political life of militias or the political groupings behind them. Violence was just one means among others in the fight for political chances. Therefore, the emergence and the life of these groups have to be explained as attempts of single political entrepreneurs to achieve the accumulation of power through the exertion of violence

Economics · Market economy · Monopoly · Patriotism · Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance