文明的野蛮:当我们忽视殖民暴力时,我们错过了什么

IF 8.2 1区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Paul K. MacDonald
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殖民战争一直是国际关系中频繁而血腥的特征,然而大多数关于战时平民受害的研究都集中在国家间战争或内战上。在这篇文章中,我认为忽视殖民暴力扭曲了我们对战时国家针对平民的暴力的理解。我介绍了一种新的殖民暴力理论,它侧重于殖民大国伤害平民的独特战略、规范和制度激励。为了评估这一理论,我引入并分析了1816年至2003年的193个殖民战争案例的新数据集。从对平民伤害的各种衡量标准来看,我发现殖民战争尤其残酷。例如,在殖民战争中,有四分之三的国家以平民为目标,而在国家间战争中,这一比例不到三分之一。但有些殖民战争对平民的伤害比其他战争更大。当他们的土著对手采用游击战术时,当他们的土著对手来自不同的种族背景时,当殖民国家依赖定居者或土著中间人来帮助弥补其相对弱点时,殖民大国更有可能伤害平民。通过忽视世界政治中的殖民暴力,我们误解了国家针对平民的暴力的规模和范围,并错过了加深我们对这种暴行原因的理解的机会。
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Civilized Barbarism: What We Miss When We Ignore Colonial Violence
Colonial warfare has been a frequent and bloody feature of international relations, yet most studies of wartime civilian victimization focus on either interstate or civil wars. In this article I argue that ignoring colonial violence has distorted our understanding of state-directed violence against civilians in wartime. I introduce a new theory of colonial violence, which focuses on the distinctive strategic, normative, and institutional incentives that colonial powers have to harm civilians. To assess this theory, I introduce and analyze a new data set of 193 cases of colonial war from 1816 to 2003. Using a variety of measures of civilian harm, I find that colonial wars are especially brutal. Three-quarters of states in colonial wars targeted civilians, for example, compared to less than a third of states in interstate wars. But some colonial wars are harder on civilians than others. Colonial powers are more likely to harm civilians when their indigenous adversaries employ guerrilla tactics, when their indigenous adversaries come from a different perceived racial background, and when the colonial state relies on settlers or indigenous intermediaries to help compensate for its relative weakness. By ignoring colonial violence in world politics, we misunderstand the scale and scope of state-directed violence against civilians and miss an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the causes of this brutality.
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期刊介绍: International Organization (IO) is a prominent peer-reviewed journal that comprehensively covers the field of international affairs. Its subject areas encompass foreign policies, international relations, political economy, security policies, environmental disputes, regional integration, alliance patterns, conflict resolution, economic development, and international capital movements. Continuously ranked among the top journals in the field, IO does not publish book reviews but instead features high-quality review essays that survey new developments, synthesize important ideas, and address key issues for future scholarship.
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