CONSORTIUM/THINK TANK TO STUDY VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM

Richard Koenigsberg and Roger Griffin

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN NOW TO SEE NAMES AND PHOTOS OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

With Roger Griffin, perhaps the world's most prominent authority on Fascism, I'm now organizing--founding--THE CONSORTIUM/THINK TANK TO STUDY VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM. We are bringing together a group of prominent, insightful scholars to explore the dynamics of collective forms of violence (war, genocide and terrorism).

During the past ten years--publishing over 2300 issues of the Library of Social Science Newsletter--we've established a "space of freedom"--allowing original and sometimes radical ideas to appear--with no interference from academic, religious, commercial or government institutions.

Now it's time to bring these ideas out into the world.

The people below (PLEASE TAKE A LOOK) are some of the wonderful scholars we've published over the years. I'm very grateful to each and every one of these people--who have been willing to share their ideas and insights.

Of course, LSS has contributing something very important: the ability to reach more people with our Newsletter (that has 8000 subscribers) in a single days with the essays and papers we publish--than a paper published in a typical scholarly journal reaches in five years.

LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS--virtually my sole source of income (apart from an occasional lecture or teaching gig)--is now defunct (that virus).

I can devote myself fully now to bringing significant ideas on collective forms of violence--war, genocide and terrorism--into the world.

I'm thankful to the people below (and many others not pictured below) who have made substantial contributions--and especially to ORION ANDERSON--my webmaster and designer throughout the years--who leaves a wonderful legacy.

I also wish to thank Mei Ha Chan--the Assistant Director of LSS--who worked with publishers brilliantly to establish LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS as the premier vehicles bringing scholarly and professional books to people around the world.

Best regards,

Richard Koenigsberg, PhD
Director, Library of Social Science

PS: A number of the people below have committed to be FOUNDING MEMBERS of the CONSORTIUM/THINK-TANK. I'm in the process of working now bringing aboard additional scholars who can contribute to this exciting project.
Michael Vlahos

Rites of Spring 		Kelly Denton-Borhaug Review of War and the
American Difference 		Alexander Chirila
Creating the Idealized Nemesis
Michael Geyer
The Nazi-Soviet War as a System of Violence 		Myra Mendible Post-Vietnam Syndrome Murray Schwartz  
Review of A Century
of Genocide
Pingchao Zhu
Mao’s Martyrs 		Walter Skya Culture of Death:
Japanese Nationalism		 Scott Atran
The Devoted Actor
Uriel Abulof

The Liberal Uncanny 		Geoffrey Cocks The Body Politic Brian Crim
Review of SS Thinking
and the Holocaust
Sam Cox

Review of Nations Have
the Right to Kill 		Yael Feldman Dying for the Motherland Emilio Gentile
A Never-Never Religion
Liah Greenfeld Review of Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust Roger Griffin The Meaning of ‘Sacrifice’ Nicoletta Gullace
White Feathers and
Wounded Men
Adam Henry The Nation-State,
Killing and Death 		Jeffrey Herf The Jewish Enemy James Jones
Why Does Religion
Turn Violent?
Paul Kahn
Political Evil 		Akio Kimura
Mishima’s Negative
Political Theology 		Alan Kramer Dynamic of Destruction
Renee Lockwood
Sacrifice and the Creation
of Group of Identity 		Carolyn Marvin
Blood Sacrifice and
the Nation 		Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
War and National Renewal
Gerald V. O'Brien Metaphors of Immigrants Meghan O’Donnell
Death, Sacrifice and Ruin
in Third Reich Germany 		Panayiotis Demopoulos
Suicide Music and the
National Self
David Redles Dietrich Eckart & the Religious Origins of the Holocaust Michael Roberts Nationalism & the Ideology of Sacrificial Death Rana Salimi
Review of Awaiting the Heavenly Country
Elaine Scarry
The Body in Pain 		Jonna Scutts
Review of Dynamic
of Destruction		 Ruth Stein Fundamentalism, Father
and Son, & Vertical Desire
Ivan Strenski
How to Think About
Suicide Bombers 		Mikkel Thorup
Total Enemies 		Brian Victoria

Holy War