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. |
Contents
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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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According affinity Allied altruistic punishment Anatolia anti-Semitic approximately Armenian genocide army Bolshevik Bosnian British Bulgaria Cambodian Catholic century chapter Christian Communist consequences contrast cooperation Croatian cynical realpolitik Czerniakow Dadrian death defeat deportations domain of losses earlier early East economic efforts Einsatzgruppen enemy especially ethnic cleansing ethnoreligious Europe European famine forces foreign French genocidal behavior German ghetto Greeks Herero Himmler Hitler Holocaust Hungarian Hungary Hutu identification immigration important invasion Ireland Irish Jewish Jewish community Jewish population Jews Khmer large numbers later leaders leadership Łódź loss compensation major mass murder massacres military million Muslim number of Jews occurred Ottoman Empire Party percent perpetrators Poland Polish political politicide potential prior prospect theory Quoted ibid realpolitik refugees Reich revolution Romania Russian Rwanda Serbs Soviet Union suggested territorial loss threat tion troops Turkish Turks Tutsi Ukrainian United Ustaše Vichy France victims Vietnamese virtually Warsaw World
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 |