caa a22 4500 463173554 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10612-007-9033-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10612-007-9033-5 Ruggiero Vincenzo Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University, Queensway Enfield, EN3 4SA, London, UK aut War, crime, empire and cosmopolitanism [Elektronische Daten] [Vincenzo Ruggiero] The millions of deaths produced by states and governments make the 20th century ‘unnameable', a century far more lethal than all previous ‘pre-civil' epochs. It does not appear that contemporary state violence tends to decline or to temper the brutality commonly attributed to archaic armies, nor that the rules and limitations internationally imposed on that violence, throughout the last decades, have reduced its effects. The 20th century having gone, and while hope was growing that mass murder and destruction would also go with it, recent events appear to suggest that the twenty-first century is poised to become unnameable in its turn. In this paper a reflection is presented of the notion of war as annihilation, which emerges in contemporary international conflicts. This is followed by a review of the debate on the relationship between war, empire and crime. As a logical extension of the argument developed, war is described as a particularly devastating form of crime of the powerful. Finally, reflecting on the concept of ‘cosmopolitanism', the discussion suggests that such a concept may offer legitimacy to those who invest their enthusiasm in supporting contemporary wars as well as to those who fight against them. The latter may find inspiration in the idea of a ‘critical' cosmopolitanism. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 International conflict nationallicence Annihilation nationallicence War nationallicence Crimes of the powerful nationallicence Empire nationallicence Critical cosmopolitanism nationallicence Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/3(2007-09-01), 211-221 1205-8629 15:3<211 2007 15 10612 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9033-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9033-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ruggiero Vincenzo Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University, Queensway Enfield, EN3 4SA, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/3(2007-09-01), 211-221 1205-8629 15:3<211 2007 15 10612 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer