Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approac

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A comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of genocide in the twentieth century. Reviewing the role of the state in perpetrating genocide with the rationale that genocide is invariably created and carried out by governments and their agents, this book explores the organisational level.

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More people have been killed in 20th-century genocides than in all wars and revolutions in the same period. Events in countries such as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia have drawn attention to the fact that genocide is a pressing contemporary problem, one that has involved the United States in varying negotiating and peace-keeping roles. Genocide is increasingly recognized as a threat to national and international security, as well as a source of tremendous human suffering and social devastation. "Governments, Citizens, and Genocide" views the crime of genocide through the lens of social science. It discusses the problem of defining genocide and then examines it from the levels of the state, the organization, and the individual. Alex Alvarez offers both a synthesis of the existing literature on genocide and important later insights developed from the study of criminal behaviour. He shows that governmental policies and institutions in genocidal states a redesigned to suppress the moral inhibitions of ordinary individuals.By linking different levels of analysis, and comparing a variety of cases, the study aims to provide a much more complex understanding of genocide than have prior studies. Based on lessons drawn from his analysis, Alvarez offers a discussion of the ways in which genocide might be anticipated and prevented.

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A comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of genocide in the twentieth century

Author Biography

Alex Alvarez earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. His primary areas of study have focused on minorities, crime, and criminal justice, as well as on collective and interpersonal violence. He has published on Native Americans, Latinos, and African Americans, fear of crime, sentencing, justifiable and criminal homicide, and genocide. He is currently writing a book on patterns of American murder.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:IntroductionChapter 1. The Age of GenocideChapter 2. A Crime By Any Other NameChapter 3. Deadly RegimesChapter 4. Lethal CogsChapter 5. Accommodating GenocideChapter 6. Confronting Genocide

Review

"Alex Alvarez has produced an exceptionally comprehensive and useful analysis of modern genocide." -- Stephen Feinstein, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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"This is a disturbing account of a crime that has plagued humankind throughout recorded history. As Alvarez (criminal justice, Northern Arizona Univ.) notes, Genocides do not suddenly happen, nor are they precipitated by age-old animosity between groups. Rather, they are the result of conscious choices made by political and military leaders. The author then takes the reader on an excursion into the political, social, legal, and military justifications employed by governments in the 20th century to justify mass killings of essentially innocent human beings. He begins his investigation with the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey after WW I and ends with a discussion of the Balkan genocides in the 1990s. The author goes into meticulous detail about the Nazi and Imperial Japanese mass killings in WW II, Stalin's great purges of the Russian peasantry in the 1930s, and the Cambodian genocide by the Pol Pot regime in the 1970s. Alvarez maintains that nationalism and the concept of sovereignty are driving forces behind most acts of genocide. Academic collections.November 2001"--J. C. Watkins, Jr., University of Alabama

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A comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of genocide in the twentieth century

Details ISBN0253338492 Author Alex Alvarez Short Title GOVERNMENTS CITIZENS & GENOCID Publisher Indiana University Press Language English ISBN-10 0253338492 ISBN-13 9780253338495 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2001 Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Residence US Affiliation Northern Arizona University Pages 240 Illustrations 1 bibliog., 1 index DOI 10.1604/9780253338495 UK Release Date 2001-02-22 AU Release Date 2001-02-22 NZ Release Date 2001-02-22 US Release Date 2001-02-22 Publication Date 2001-02-22 Alternative 9780253108487 DEWEY 304.6630904 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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