This text aims to expand the growing scholarly debate around genocide by exploring the involvement of the USA and other liberal 'Western' democracies in activities supposedly restricted to totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
Indhold: Overview Adam Jones: Introduction: history and complicity. Peter Stoett: Shades of complicity: towards atypology of transnational crimes against humanity Genocide, war crimes and the West (Jan-Bart Gewald: Imperial Germany and the herero of Southern Africa. Ward Churchi…
"Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes and the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understa…
"Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes and the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understa…
"Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes and the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understa…
This book examines whether differences in the organizational structure of armed groups shape patterns of human rights violations in civil wars. Since the end of World War II, civil wars have been characterized by extremely high numbers of civilian casualties. However, the exact …