Extreem geweld door Nederlandse veiligheidstroepen tijdens de dekolonisatieoorlogen werden lang afgedaan als incidenten en excessen. Wat waren de oorzaken van dit extreme geweld? In hoeverre week Nederland af van andere kolonisatiemachten, zoals het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Frankrijk? Was het geweld structureel …

In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there …

Following the withdrawal of large scale military contingents from Afghanistan and Iraq, enthusiasm in the Western world for what has been called armed state-building seems to have sunk to an all-time low. This is not entirely surprising given the high stakes and the meagre results of the massive efforts …