Download or read book The Legitimization of Violence written by David E. Apter and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-12-27 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of itself. In The Legitimization of Violence eight well-known specialists explore various types of violence, from ideological to fundamentalist movements, within a framework of comparative theory.