Violent Nations, and Others

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Abstract
A nine-fold typology of conceptions of “violence” is suggested, ranging from least to most inclusive and from the individual to the transnational level. Eight of the nine different facets of violence are then measured for 86 nations as expressed in the form of 31 variables, referring mainly to conditions and events in the 1950s and 1960s. These 31 measures are factor-analyzed, revealing eight distinct dimensions of “violence” among contemporary nations. It is thus possible to refine the initial typology by making a series of successive differentiations between internal and transnational types of physical violence, between structures of coercion and structures of denial, and so on. Finally individual and composite “violence” profiles are presented for the 86 nations examined in this study.

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