Genocide Studies Reader

<p>This thorough overview of all aspects of the field of genocide studies brings together for the first time classic and contemporary writings from some of the most noted scholars writing on genocide in the fields of genocide studies, political science, history, and sociology. The <em>Reader</em> covers key aspects of a host of complex and thorny issues, such as the definition of genocide, theories of genocide, prevention and intervention, and its denial. This collection of writings is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this most atrocious form of political violence that has plagued human history.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Definitions of Genocide <em>Section 1: The Origin of the Term Genocide and the Definition Used in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide</em></strong> 1. Genocide: A Modern Crime <em>Raphael Lemkin</em> 2. Development of the Rule on Genocide <em>Lawrence J. LeBlanc</em> 3. Intent <em>Morten Bergsmo</em> 4. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide <strong><em>Section 2: Alternative Definitions </em></strong> 5. The Definition of Genocide <em>Israel Charny</em> 6. Human Destructiveness and Politics: The Twentieth Century as an Age of Genocide <em>Roger Smith</em> 7. Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept <em>Helen Fein</em> 8. Towards a Functional Definition <em>Ward Churchill</em> <strong><em>Section 3: Related Terms</em></strong> 9. A Typology of Cleansing <em>Andrew Bell-Fialkoff</em> 10. Explaining Ethnic Cleansing <em>Michael Mann </em> 11. Recognizing Genocides and Politicides <em>Barbara Harff</em> 12. Crimes Against Humanity<em> William Schabas</em> 13. Massacres <em>Jacques Semelin</em> 14. The New Concept of Democide <em>Rudolph Rummel</em> <strong>Part 2: Theories and Causes of Genocide <em>Section 4: Theories of Genocide</em></strong> 15. The Origins of Genocide and Mass Killing: Core Concepts <em>Ervin Staub</em> 16. Deadly Regimes <em>Alex Alvarez</em> 17. Theories of Genocide <em>Leo Kuper</em> 18. The Etiology of Genocides <em>Barbara Harff</em> 19. Scarcity and Genocide<em> Roger W. Smith</em> 20. The Eight Stages of Genocide <em>Gregory Stanton</em> <strong>Part 3: Genocidal Crimes <em>Section 5: Cases of Genocide</em></strong> 21. A Historical Summary <em>Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonnashon</em> 22. The History of Genocide: An Overview<em> Paul Bartrop and Samuel Totten</em> 23. Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples <em>David Maybury-Lewis</em> 24. Holocaust: Genocide of the Jews <em>Donald Niewyk</em> 25. State Rape: Sexual Violence as Genocide <em>Lisa Sharlach</em> 26. Report of the Security General, Kofi Annan, to the United Nations Security Council: The Fall of Srebrenica.' Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/35 (1998) 27. Genocide in Darfur <em>Samuel Totten</em> <strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>Section 6: Comparative Studies of Various Cases of Genocide</em> </strong>28. The Modernity of Genocides: War, Race, and Revolution in the Twentieth Century <em>Eric D. Weitz</em> 29. The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth Century Genocide <em>Robert F. Melson</em> 30. Twentieth Century Genocides: Underlying Ideological Themes from Armenia to East Timor <em>Ben Kiernan</em> 31. Connecting Threads: Rwanda, the Holocaust, and the Pattern of Contemporary Genocide <em>Mark Levene</em> <strong>Part 4: The Complexities of the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide <em>Section 7: The Issues of Sovereignty and Political Will</em></strong> 32<strong><em>. </em></strong>Realpolitik <em>M. Cherif Bassouni</em> 33. The Concept of Sovereignty and the Development of International Law <em>Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto</em> 34. The Dilemma of Political Will: How Fixed, How Malleable the Domestic Constraints? <em>Bruce W. Jentleson</em> <strong> </strong>35. Intervention, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: Experiences for ICISS <em>Ramesh Thakur</em> <em><strong>Section 8: The Prevention of Genocide</strong></em> 36. From Early Warning to Early Action <em>Kumar Rupesinghe</em> <strong> </strong>37. The Three P's of Genocide Prevention: With Application to a Genocide Foretold -- Rwanda <em>Helen Fein</em> 38. The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide <em>Samuel Totten</em> 39. A Good Man in Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide <strong><em>Section 9: Intervention of Genocide</em></strong> 40. Policies of Militarized Humanitarian Intervention <em>Thomas G. Weiss and Cindy Collins</em> 41. Economic Sanctions and Genocide: Too Little, Too Late, and Sometimes Too Much <em>George A. Lopez</em> 42. The East Pakistan (Bangladesh) Intervention of 1971 <em>Francis Kofi Abiew</em><strong> </strong>43.<strong> </strong>Vietnam's Intervention in Cambodia (Kampuchea), 1978 <em>Francis Kofi Abiew</em> 44. Against the Grain: The East Timor Intervention <em>James Cotton</em> 45. Reflections on the Legality and Legitimacy of NATO’S Intervention in Kosovo <strong>Part 5: Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide <em>Section 10: Setting a Precedent: The Nuremberg Trials</em></strong> 46.<strong> </strong>The Path to Nuremberg <em>Howard Ball</em> <strong><em>Section 11: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia</em></strong> 47<strong>.</strong> The ICTY: Origin, Trials, and Tribulations <em>Howard Ball</em> 48. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia <em>Payam Akhavan and Mora Johnson</em> 49. Radislav Krstic Becomes the First Person to Be Convicted of Genocide at the ICTY and Is Sentenced to 46 Years Imprisonment <strong><em>Section 12: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda</em></strong> 50. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda <em>Peter Uvin and Charles Mironko</em><strong> </strong>51.<strong> </strong>Formation of the ICTR <em>Howard Ball</em> 52. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda <em>Michelle S. Lyon and Mark A. Drumbl</em> 53. Historic Judgement Finds Akayesu Guilty of Genocide <em>International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda</em> <strong>Section <em>13: Trials in National Courts</em></strong> 54. National Trials in Rwanda <em>Jennifer Balint</em> <strong><em>Section 14: The International Criminal Court (ICC) </em></strong>55. Nuremberg's Legacy: Adoption of the Rome Statute <em>Howard Ball</em> <strong>Part 6: Denial of Genocide <em>Section 15 </em></strong>56. A Classification of Denials of the Holocaust and Other Genocides <em>Israel W. Charny</em> </p>