Genocide in the Modern Age
State-Society Relations in the Making of Mass Political Violence
- 300 pages
- English
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Genocide in the Modern Age
State-Society Relations in the Making of Mass Political Violence
About this book
This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrators in government and society opt for brutality as a means of accomplishing their goals. Introducing the new concept of "mass political violence" to explain genocide and other mass killings in the modern world, the author investigates "how" perpetrators sustain the capacity to enact violence on a large-scale, irrespective of motives. Cases including the Holocaust, Soviet Union, Rwanda, Cambodia, the Lord's Resistance Army, the Islamic State, the Ottoman Empire of the 1890s, Mao Zedong's revolutionary violence, the Congo Crisis, and Darfur are used by the author to identify four types of mass political violence perpetrators – state actors, state-society coalitions, state-sponsored groups, and non-state actors to explain historical trends and identify which perpetrators are most likely to emerge in a given socio-political context and sustain violence over time. Comparative and grounded in case studies, this book will interest policymakers, diplomats, governmental advisers, practitioners, and industry researchers. It will also be invaluable to students and scholars of Political Science, International Affairs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Political Psychology, Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Public Policy, Media Studies, and Criminology.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II State Perpetrators: A Dynamic Structural Approach to State-Driven Mass Political Violence
- Part III State-Society Coalition Perpetrators: A Dynamic Structural Approach to State-Society Coalitions
- Part IV Hidden Trends: State-Sponsored Groups and Non-State Actor Perpetrators
- Appendix A: First-Wave Definitions of Genocide
- Appendix B: Second-Wave Definitions of Genocide
- Appendix C: Third-Wave Definitions of Replacement Terms for Genocide
- Bibliography
- Index