The Genocide Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The reader covers key aspects of the most complex issues of genocide studies vis-à-vis the definition of genocide, theories of genocide, the prevention and intervention of genocide, and the denial of genocide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1197g
• ISBN-13: 9780415953948
• ISBN-10: 0415953944
• Artikelnr.: 23604485

Autorenporträt

Samuel Totten is a Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is a co-founding editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. He has also been a Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda. Paul R. Bartrop is an honorary fellow in the Faculty of Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, head of the department of history at Bialik College, Melbourne, and a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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