2000/01/01 by Bruce B. Campbell · 1 citation
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Archaeology #Artificial intelligence #Cold war #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Development, Ethics, and Society #HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk #History #Latin Americans #Law #Legitimacy #Object (grammar) #Political science #Politics #State (computer science) #World War II
paper · doi:10.1057/9780230108141_1
openalex publication_date 2000/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Death squads are found all over the world today, and in just the last 30 years have been responsible for hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of deaths.1 They did not disappear with the end of the Cold War, and they are certainly not a uniquely Latin American or even a “third world” problem. At the same time, they differ from other tools of repression in a number of significant aspects, notably in the way they mix state and private interests and in the way they call into question the very legitimacy and substance of the state. Their prevalence, destructive capacity, and unique nature all combine to make them an important object of study.