Genocide and International Relations ：Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World

Publication subTitle ：Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World

Author： Martin Shaw

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781107452831

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521110136

Subject： D066 colonial problem

Keyword：外交、国际关系

Language： ENG

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Genocide and International Relations

Description

Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political and cultural context in which the field has developed. In particular, a narrow vision of comparative studies has been influential in which genocide is viewed mainly as a 'domestic' phenomenon of states. This book emphasizes the international context of genocide, seeking to specify more precisely the relationships between genocide and the international system. Shaw aims to re-interpret the classical European context of genocide in this frame, to provide a comprehensive international perspective on Cold War and post-Cold War genocide, and to re-evaluate the key transitions of the end of the Second World War and the end of the Cold War.

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

Regime and ideology

Domesticated genocide

A restricted view of international relations

An ahistorical paradigm

Conclusion

3 World-historical perspectives: international and colonial

The international system

Colonialism and genocide

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

Conclusion

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

Darfur and Sudan

Wider genocidal violence in north-east and East Africa

West Africa

Southern Africa

North Africa and the Middle East

Indonesia and East Timor

South and West Asia

East Asia: a lasting reduction in genocidal violence?

Latin America: accounting for violence?

Conclusions

10 Conclusions: history and future of genocide

Shifting patterns of genocide, changing international contexts

The nature of 'international contexts', regional and global

Continuity and change

Genocide today, future crises, and genocide prevention

Bibliography

Index

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