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In 2017 alone, an estimated 68,851 people lost their lives as a consequence of civil wars, that is, armed conflicts that take place within the borders of a state. Such violent conflicts not only lead to immense human suffering, but also leave social, economic and political imprints on the societies that experience them. This dissertation contributes to a burgeoning literature that seeks to understand these imprints by studying how local conflict dynamics affect two specific outcomes: institutional trust and postwar crime. It comprises four independent essays that pose separate research questions, but taken together make important contributions to our understanding of how subnational particularities related to conflict intensity, armed actors and the type of violence employed determine whether, how and why civil wars affect the outcomes of interest. Essay I finds that a large-scale insurgent attack on civilians led to an immediate increase in individual-level trust in state institutions in Kabul City. Essay II finds that conflict intensity at the local level in Afghanistan has a negative impact on individual-level perceptions of one specific state institution: the police. Essay III finds that the more an area in Northern Ireland was affected by wartime violence, the more crime it displayed in the postwar context, but that this effect is contingent on the actor perpetrating violence. Finally, Essay IV shows how conflict dynamics in a former insurgent stronghold of Northern Ireland (West Belfast) changed the style of policing at the local level, as well as the consequences this had for the police's ability to enforce law and order in the postwar context. These findings speak to an emerging research agenda that studies the conditions under which civil wars function either as forces of destruction or as catalysts for societal development, and offer three larger conclusions: conflict dynamics shape the relationship between local populations and the state far into the postwar period; institutional consequences of armed conflict can translate into postwar challenges, such as crime; and conflict dynamics affect perceptions of state institutions in a quite similar manner across rather different contexts, in this case, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.

Intro -- Editorial -- Inhalt -- MitDenken: "Da sind auch noch andere, die man berücksichtigen muss!" -- SchwerPunkt: Wirkungen -- Klaus-Peter Hufer: Wirkungslose Wirkungsforschung? -- Nadine Balzter: Zur Debatte der Wirkungsforschung und Rekonstruktion biographischer Nachhaltigkeit politischer Jugendbildung -- Eva Zimmermann, Frank König: Wie wirkt politische Bildung? -- Helmut Bremer u.a.: Jugend partizipiert -- Antja Pabst, Christine Zeuner: Mehrfachteilnahme am Bildungsurlaub -- ZeitZeugen: Wolfgang Benz -- BildungsPraxis: Jens Schmidt: breit aufgestellt! -- Andreas Hechler: Komplexe Verhältnisse -- VorGänge -- LeseZeichen -- ÜberGrenzen: David Sirakov, Sarah Wagner: Untergang der liberalen Weltordnung? -- AusBlick -- IMPRESSUM

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Murdoch and lived experience -- Introduction -- A philosophical novelist? -- Sartre and Under the Net: Philosophy and the novel at the outset of Murdoch's career -- The dialectic of Murdoch's life and work -- Chapter Two Murdoch and metaphysics -- Introduction -- Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals -- Murdoch and the 'Manuscript on Heidegger' -- Appraising Heidegger -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Murdoch and the novel -- Introduction -- Murdoch on the novel and history -- Form, content and the reader in Murdoch's novels -- Murdoch on Plato on art -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four Murdoch and morality -- Murdoch: Moral theory, history and dialectic -- Plato, Murdoch and morality -- Morality in modern times -- Unselfing, attention and the novel -- 'The Idea of Perfection' -- 'On "God" and "Good".' -- 'The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts' -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Murdoch and the political -- Is Murdoch political? -- Politics and the novel -- 'A House of Theory' and early novels -- Murdoch's later political thought -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six Murdoch: Her life and times -- Introduction: The personal and the public -- Letters to Frank Thompson and David Hicks -- Letters to Queneau -- Letters to Michael Oakeshott -- Letters to David Morgan -- Letters to Brigid Brophy -- Letters to Philippa Foot -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Conclusion -- Introduction -- Murdoch on Plato -- Hegel on Plato -- Murdoch, Plato and Hegel -- Why Iris Murdoch matters -- Notes -- Biblioghraphy -- Iris Murdoch -- Plays -- Dialogues -- Unpublished writings -- Novels -- Short story -- Other authors -- Unpublished writing -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The posthumanist universal: Between precarity and rebellion -- The crisis of multiculturalism -- The ethical tensions of the face -- The revival of universalism -- The singular and the universal -- The victim versus the immortal -- Sara Ahmed's brick wall -- But what is the universal? -- Historically specific universalism -- The radicalness of the universal -- Breaking with tradition, culture, and custom -- Chapter 2: The bad habits of critical theory: On the rigid rituals of thought -- Slaying the humanist subject -- Is the subject precarious or arrogant? -- Why do we want to kill the subject? -- The rewards of antinormativity -- Cleansing the plate -- The failings of relationality -- The problems of antinormativity -- Posthumanist ethical aporias -- The historicity of normative ethics -- Badiou's ethics of the event -- Chapter 3: Why some things matter more than others: A Lacanian explanation -- The hermeneutics of suspicion -- When satisfaction dissatisfies -- When dissatisfaction satisfies -- Lacan's ethics of desire -- Two types of desire -- The echo of the thing -- Outshining the lures of capitalism -- The Thing's code of ethics -- Why is there so much anxiety? -- Desire as a remedy to anxiety -- Chapter 4: Rupture or resignation? Lacanian political theory versus affect theory -- The event, the act -- The sublimity of failure -- The phallus as lack -- Different levels of negation -- Who can afford rupture? -- Negotiating with power -- What is agency? -- Refusing to answer to comrade -- What's good about feeling bad? -- The inadequacies of grieving -- Chapter 5: Socrates's mistake: Lacanians on love, Lacan on Agálmata -- Romance versus love -- Badiou's amorous event -- Love's traumatic dimensions

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