POWER KILLS: DEMOCRACY AS A METHOD OF NONVIOLENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 13149015B84168
English Summary/英文概要： This volume, newly published in paperback, is part of a comprehensive effort by R. J. Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder, or what he calls democide. It is the fifth in a series of volumes in which he offers a detailed analysis of the 120,000,000 people killed as a result of government action or direct intervention. In Power Kills, Rummel offers a realistic and practical solution to war, democide, and other collective violence. As he states it, "The solution...is to foster democratic freedom and to democratize coercive power and force. That is, mass killing and mass murder carried out by government is a result of indiscriminate, irresponsible Power at the center." Rummel observes that well-established democracies do not make war on and rarely commit lesser violence against each other. The more democratic two nations are, the less likely is war or smaller-scale violence between them. The more democratic a nation is, the less severe its overall foreign violence, the less likely it will have domestic collective violence, and the less its democide. Rummel argues that the evidence supports overwhelmingly the most important fact of our time: democracy is a method of nonviolence.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本最新出版的平装书是作者有关种族灭绝和大屠杀的历史性研究的一个部分。这是一系列著作中的第五卷，作者在这一系列作品中详细分析了120000000个因政府行动或直接干预致死的人。作者在本书中提出了解决战争、屠杀和其他集体暴力的现实可行的解决方法——“解决方法就是促进民主自由并民主化强制性权力和力量。也就是说，政府的大屠杀和大规模谋杀是具有偏见、不负责任的中央权力所造成的。”作者发现，民主程度越高的国家之间发生战争或暴力事件的可能性就越小。而一个国家越民主，对外暴力事件、国内集体性暴力事件和屠杀就越少。他认为，大量的证据表明了这个时代最重要的事实：民主是消除暴力的一种方式。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“本书是40多年深入研究的成果……作者是本世纪对促进理解国内外暴力真正原因做出最大贡献的学者……”——Robert F. Turner，弗吉尼亚大学国家安全法中心
“Rummel动用了所有逻辑和实证资源，研究了每一项相关研究，发挥其圆桌骑士般的能量，从专业学者的角度支持自己的论文及论点。”——Jack Vincent，爱达荷大学政治科学教授
"The result of four decades of truly brilliant intellectual inquiry.... No scholar has done more in this century to promote understanding about the true causes of internal and external State violence...." - Robert F. Turner, Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia "Rummel mobilizes every resource (logical and empirical), tracks down virtually every related study, and defends his thesis with the energy of a knight of the round table and the hand of a master scholar." - Jack Vincent, Borah Professor of Political Science, University of Idaho
About the Author/作者介绍： R. J. Rummel，夏威夷大学政治学教授。著有《政府导致的死亡（Death by Government）》《大屠杀（Democide）》《致命的政治（ Lethal Politics）》等。他曾凭借该领域的研究获得1996年诺贝尔和平奖提名。
R. J. Rummel is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He is also the author of Death by Government, Democide, and Lethal Politics, all published by Transaction. He was nominated for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his work on this subject.
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