{"product_id":"explosive-conflict-hardback","title":"Explosive Conflict - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does. Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of nationalism and hysteria after 9\/11 to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of the Internet as substitutes for military organization. Nevertheless, \u003cem\u003eExplosive Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e offers some optimistic discoveries on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45601016447214,"sku":"9781032157733","price":241.4,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/explosive-conflict-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}