War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern SocietyISBN: 978-0-7456-1907-1
Paperback
272 pages
May 2003, Polity
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- Argues that the degeneration of war into genocide in the
twentieth century was systematic and structural.
- Examines war and genocide together with their opposites, peace
and justice, from the standpoint of victims as well as
perpetrators.
- Provides a guide to the main intellectual resources –
military, political and social theories – necessary to
understand war and genocide.
- Summarizes the main historical episodes of slaughter, from the
trenches of the First World War to the Nazi Holocaust and the
killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda.
- Includes suggestions for further reading, courses and websites