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War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1907-1
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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
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