The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

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Contents List of Contributors Editor’s Introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide PART I: CONCEPTS 1. Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide 2. ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ versus Genocide? 3. Gender and Genocide 4. The State and Genocide 5. Genocide and Memory PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 6. The Law and Genocide 7. Sociology and Genocide 8. Political Science and Genocide 9. Anthropology and Genocide 10. Social Psychology and Genocide 11. Philosophy and Genocide PART III: PREMODERN AND EARLY MODERN GENOCIDE 12. Genocide in the Ancient World 13. Early Medieval Europe: the Case of Britain and Ireland 14. Central and Late Medieval Europe 15. Colonial Latin America 16. Rethinking Genocide in North America PART IV: GENOCIDE IN THE LATE MODERN WORLD 17. Genocide and Mass Violence in the ‘Heart of Darkness’: Africa in the Colonial Period 18. Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire 19. Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR 20. The Nazi Empire 21. Twentieth-Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Intergroup Violence 22. Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia 23. State-Sponsored Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia 24. National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question 25. Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe 26. Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa 27. War and Genocide in Africa’s Great Lakes since Independence PART V: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: RULES AND RESPONSES 28. The United Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy 29. Military Intervention 30. Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Génocidaires 31. From Past to Future: Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z physical weakness