War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1907-1

Paperback

272 pages

May 2003, Polity

Other Available Formats: E-book, Hardcover, Wiley E-Text

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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