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This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world.
Most accounts of war and genocide treat them as separate phenomena. This book thoroughly examines the links between these two most inhuman of human activities. It shows that the generally legitimate business of war and the monstrous crime of genocide are closely related. This is not just because genocide usually occurs in the midst of war, but because genocide is a form of war directed against civilian populations. The book shows how fine the line has been, in modern history, between 'degenerate war' involving the mass destruction of civilian populations, and 'genocide', the deliberate destruction of civilian groups as such.
Written by one of the foremost sociological writers on war, War and Genocide has four main features:
? an original argument about the meaning and causes of mass killing in the modern world;
? a guide to the main intellectual resources - military, political and social theories - necessary to understand war and genocide;
? summaries of the main historical episodes of slaughter, from the trenches of the First World War to the Nazi Holocaust and the killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda;
? practical guides to further reading, courses and websites.
This book examines war and genocide together with their opposites, peace and justice. It looks at them from the standpoint of victims as well as perpetrators. It is an important book for anyone wanting to understand - and overcome - the continuing salience of destructive forces in modern society.
Most accounts of war and genocide treat them as separate phenomena. This book thoroughly examines the links between these two most inhuman of human activities. It shows that the generally legitimate business of war and the monstrous crime of genocide are closely related. This is not just because genocide usually occurs in the midst of war, but because genocide is a form of war directed against civilian populations. The book shows how fine the line has been, in modern history, between 'degenerate war' involving the mass destruction of civilian populations, and 'genocide', the deliberate destruction of civilian groups as such.
Written by one of the foremost sociological writers on war, War and Genocide has four main features:
? an original argument about the meaning and causes of mass killing in the modern world;
? a guide to the main intellectual resources - military, political and social theories - necessary to understand war and genocide;
? summaries of the main historical episodes of slaughter, from the trenches of the First World War to the Nazi Holocaust and the killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda;
? practical guides to further reading, courses and websites.
This book examines war and genocide together with their opposites, peace and justice. It looks at them from the standpoint of victims as well as perpetrators. It is an important book for anyone wanting to understand - and overcome - the continuing salience of destructive forces in modern society.
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This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world.
Most accounts of war and genocide treat them as separate phenomena. This book thoroughly examines the links between these two most inhuman of human activities. It shows that the generally legitimate business of war and the monstrous crime of genocide are closely related. This is not just because genocide usually occurs in the midst of war, but because genocide is a form of war directed against civilian populations. The book shows how fine the line has been, in modern history, between ‘degenerate war’ involving the mass destruction of civilian populations, and ‘genocide’, the deliberate destruction of civilian groups as such.
Written by one of the foremost sociological writers on war, War and Genocide has four main features:
· an original argument about the meaning and causes of mass killing in the modern world;
· a guide to the main intellectual resources – military, political and social theories – necessary to understand war and genocide;
· summaries of the main historical episodes of slaughter, from the trenches of the First World War to the Nazi Holocaust and the killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda;
· practical guides to further reading, courses and websites.
This book examines war and genocide together with their opposites, peace and justice. It looks at them from the standpoint of victims as well as perpetrators. It is an important book for anyone wanting to understand – and overcome – the continuing salience of destructive forces in modern society.
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Human beings are unique in the animal kingdom in the wide extent to which they kill their own kind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
degenerate war, killing spaces, organized killing, war participation, genocidal massacres, mass killing, genocidal war, interstate war Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Human beings are unique in the animal kingdom in the wide extent to which they kill their own kind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
degenerate war, killing spaces, organized killing, war participation, genocidal massacres, mass killing, genocidal war, interstate war Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold War, Second World War, New York, First World War, Oxford University Press, Soviet Union, South Africa, United Nations, United States, Cambridge University Press, Gulf War, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Nazi Germany, New Haven, Princeton University Press, Slobodan Milosevic, Vietnam War, Yale University Press, Zed Books, Westview Press, Cultural Revolution, Security Council, Third World, Basic Books New!
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- New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era by Mary Kaldor on 4 pages
- On War (Dodo Press) by Carl von, General Clausewitz on page 19, and page 31
- Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang on page 158, and page 188
- The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan on page 31, and page 144
- The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-famine by Robert Conquest on page 53, and page 56
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- Rethinking the Nature of War (Cass Contemporary Security Studies) by I. Duyvesteyn on page 22, and page 26
- The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, And War in Rwanda by Scott Straus in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Iraq War: European Perspectives on Politics, Strategy and Operations (Cass Contemporary Security Studies Series) by J. Hellenberg on page 14
- The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century by Manus I. Midlarsky in Back Matter
- Rethinking the Nature of War (Cass Contemporary Security Studies) by I. Duyvesteyn on page 26
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