Questions tagged [monopoly-on-violence]
State monopoly on violence is the concept that the state alone has the right to use or authorize the use of physical force. It is widely regarded as a defining characteristic of the modern state.
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Can a country refuse to deliver a person accused of attempted murder?
In 2023 in Hungary, masked antifa members injured participants of a right-wing demonstration, some of them seriously. The attack happened with metal rods, rubber mallets and pepper spray.
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Why is swatting a thing only in North America?
Swatting, or the act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police response team to another person's address in the hope that harm comes to them by police violence. This is relatively ...
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When is violent civil unrest defined as a civil war?
Given the recent civil unrest in the United States, where after three months of rioting, protesters and counter-protesters have begun shooting each other on the streets with at least three dead, I ...
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Has any of the US federal armed forces acted violently against civil movements / protesters?
Details may be confusing, but I mean to ask whether federal armed forces, including the military (Army, Navy, etc.) and policing/investigative organizations (FBI, Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals,...
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Can the US Federal Government be considered to hold a State Monopoly on Violence?
I came upon the political science topic of State Monopoly on Violence and was ruminating on past and contemporary political structures, curious what a system where no party was afforded this monopoly ...
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