The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth CenturyThe Killing Trap offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide. |
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Contents
Preliminary considerations | 3 |
Case selection | 22 |
Continuity and validation | 43 |
Prologue to theory | 64 |
A theoretical framework | 83 |
Threat of numbers realpolitik and ethnic cleansing | 113 |
Realpolitik and loss | 135 |
The need for unity and altruistic punishment | 169 |
the role of realpolitik | 250 |
Inequality and absence of identification | 264 |
On the possibility of revolt and altruistic | 287 |
the Cambodian | 309 |
realpolitik and the absence | 325 |
affinity and vulnerability | 335 |
Findings consequences and prevention | 369 |
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References to this book
Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe Aristotle A. Kallis No preview available - 2009 |
Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide Jacques Sémelin No preview available - 2007 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century |
| Author | Manus I. Midlarsky |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1139445391, 9781139445399 |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Comparative Politics Political Science / General Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy |
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