
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities – especially ethnic and racial minorities – are treated by the majority, Larry May's Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multicultural states.
In order to determine what constitutes the crime of ethnic cleansing, this book details crucial conceptual issues around the topic, such as what ethnicity means, what ethnic cleansing claims to achieve, why these acts are invariably harmful, and the conditions of restitution, reparation, and reconciliation – affirming that ethnic cleansing must be countered by existing institutions such as the International Criminal Court, which is uniquely situated to prosecute ethnic cleansing.
The first major study to analyze ethnic cleansing from an explicitly normative and conceptual perspective in the last decade, the increase in number and complexity of cases of ethnic cleansing makes this a timely book to understand the challenges that confront contemporary society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Setting the Problem
- 2 A Proposed “Consensus” Definition
- 3 Ancient “Ethnic” Atrocities
- 4 The Trail of Tears
- 5 Darfur
- 6 Bosnia: “The Paradigm Case”?
- 7 The West Bank and Gaza Today
- 8 The Meaning of the Term “Ethnic”
- 9 The Meaning of the Term “Cleansing”
- 10 Identity and Ethnicity
- 11 Minority Rights
- 12 Destroying Versus Cleansing
- 13 Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity
- 14 The “Divorce” Metaphor
- 15 The Role of International Criminal Law
- 16 Prosecuting Perpetrators of Ethnic Cleansing
- 17 Defenses for Ethnic Cleansing
- 18 Voluntary Population Transfers
- 19 Forced Transfers and the “Eminent Domain” Metaphor
- 20 Justice After Ethnic Cleansing
- 21 Is Ethnic Cleansing Ever Necessary?
- 22 The Misuse of the Idea of Purity
- 23 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index