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The killing trap : genocide in the twentieth century

"The 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 to prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socioeconomic 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ©2005
History
xv, 463 pages ; 23 cm
9780521815451, 9780521894692, 0521815452, 0521894697
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pt. I. Introduction
1. Preliminary considerations
Purposes of the book
The role of theory
Research strategy
Plan of the book
2. Case selection
Excluded cases
Three cases of genocide
pt. II. Explaining perpetrators : theoretical foundations
3. Continuity and validation
Continuity of the killing in three cases
Validation
4. Prologue to theory
Rational choice
Utopianism
Two historical cases
5. A theoretical framework
The domain of losses and state insecurity
Three types of realpolitik
Realpolitik, property, and loss compensation
The domain of losses, risk, and loss compensation
Altruistic punishment
pt. III. The theory applied
6. Threat of numbers, realpolitik, and ethnic cleansing
The Irish famine
Germans and Jews in Poland
Muslims in Bosnia
7. Realpolitik and loss
The Holocaust
The Armenians
The Tutsi
Conclusion
8. The need for unity and altruistic punishment
Germany
The Ottoman empire
Rwanda
Himmler and the necessity for cooperation
Conclusion
9. Perpetrating states
Italy : a genocidal trajectory
Vichy France
Romania. pt. IV. Victim vulnerability : explaining magnitude and manner of dying
10. Raison d'état, raison d'église
The Armenians
The Holocaust
The Tutsi
Conclusion
11. Cynical realpolitik and the unwanted
The United States
Great Britain and commonwealth countries
Impact on the Holocaust
12. High victimization : the role of realpolitik
Hungary
The Netherlands
13. Inequality and absence of identification
Inequality and absence of identification between perpetrators and victims
Inequality and absence of identification among the victims
On the possibilities of survival
Equality and identification between Jews and non-Jews
14. On the possibility of revolt and altruistic punishment
Łódź
Warsaw
Vilna
Comparisons among the three ghettos
Conclusion : the role of altruistic punishment. pt. V. Exceptions
15. A dog of a different nature : the Cambodian politicide
Variation in victimization
Genocide of the Vietnamese
The communist models
Purges
Summary comparisons
16. Dogs that didn't bark I : realpolitik and the absence of loss
Bulgaria
Finland
Comparisons
17. Dogs that didn't bark II : affinity and vulnerability reduction
Affinity and genocide
Greeks in the Ottoman empire
Jews in Eastern Europe
Poland at the time of the Partitions
Britain and Ireland
Israel and intifada II
The impact of war
pt. VI. Conclusion
18. Findings, consequences, and prevention
Similarities and differences
Consequences of genocide
Genocide prevention and the role of democracy
Validation
Coda
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