Chapter
1 Emancipating genocide research
Political and legal origins of 'genocide'
The Holocaust as a 'sacred evil'
Analogical bridging and political campaigning
Competitive, even denialist, politics of victimization
Implications for genocide scholarship
2 Fallacies of the comparative genocide paradigm
Comparative method and genocide research
The study of 'genocides' rather than genocide
Priority of mega-genocides, 'rarity' of genocide
Singular perpetrators, singular victim-groups
Third parties as bystanders
A restricted view of international relations
3 World-historical perspectives: international and colonial
Historic specificity in the international relations of genocide
Part II Twentieth-century genocide
4 European genocide: inter-imperial crisis and world war
The 'nation-state-empire' and the 'inter-imperial' international system
Nineteenth-century roots of twentieth-century genocide
The Holocaust and the wider pattern of genocide
Explaining genocide's internationally systemic character
Limits of genocide in the inter-imperial crisis
5 The 1948 Convention and the transition in genocide
1944-49: the Convention and a new pattern of genocide
The expulsion of German populations
Anti-population violence in the Chinese civil war
The forced removal of the majority of the Palestinian Arabs
Two-way genocidal violence in the Indian Partition
The character of the transition
6 Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial genocide
The changing international system: the Cold War and genocide
The Asian Cold War, Maoism and genocide
Genocide in wars of decolonization
Post-colonial states, contested power
Quasi-imperial states: territorial conflicts and secessionist wars
Consolidation of settler states and the special case of apartheid
Anti-leftist genocide: Latin America
7 The end of the Cold War and genocide
Genocide prevention as a Western and UN interest
The end of the Cold War and the international system
Genocide in the disintegration of the Soviet state
Yugoslavia: a regional system of genocidal conflict
Iraq: Saddam's campaigns, Western intervention and civil war genocide
Part III New patterns of genocide
8 Genocide in political and armed conflict: theoretical issues
Phenomenology, perceptions and terminology
Extermination and control
Generalizations about civil war and their relevance to genocide
Electoral democracy, democratic upheaval and genocidal violence
9 Genocide in twenty-first-century regional and global relations
Africa: a continental context of genocide?
The Great Lakes regional context
Wider genocidal violence in north-east and East Africa
North Africa and the Middle East
East Asia: a lasting reduction in genocidal violence?
Latin America: accounting for violence?
10 Conclusions: history and future of genocide
Shifting patterns of genocide, changing international contexts
The nature of 'international contexts', regional and global
Genocide today, future crises, and genocide prevention