Monopoly of Violence

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A Monopoly of Violence is a monopoly on the use of physical force.



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2015

  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence Retrieved:2015-3-21.
    • The monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force, also known as the monopoly on violence, is the defining conception of the state as first expounded by sociologist Max Weber in his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919). Weber claims that the state is any "human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory"; thus, "the modern state is a compulsory association which organizes domination." In other words, Weber describes the state as any organization that succeeds in holding the exclusive right to use, threaten, or authorize physical force against residents of its territory. Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation. According to Raymond Aron, international relations are characterized by the absence of widely acknowledged legitimacy in the use of force between states. [1]
  1. Raymond Aron. Paix et guerre entre les nations, Paris 1962; English: Peace and War, 1966. New edition 2003.

2007

1973

  • Eisinger, Peter K. “The conditions of protest behavior in American cities." American political science review 67, no. 01 (1973): 11-28.

1919