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Zusatztext With its comprehensive introduction and compilation of critical essays in the field, this volume will be a key resource for anyone - students, scholars, practitioners, or lay readers -- interested in genocide. Informationen zum Autor Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and previously taught at Harvard University. His books include Lawfare and The Legacies of Law, which won the American Political Science Associations 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. He is currently at work on a genocide trilogy. Klappentext Genocide continues to confound scholars, practitioners, and laypersons. This Reader lays the foundation for improved explanation and understanding of this darkest of human phenomena. The volume provides an introduction to the myriad dimensions of genocide, and to the various ways of making sense of it. Zusammenfassung Genocide continues to confound scholars, practitioners, and laypersons. This Reader lays the foundation for improved explanation and understanding of this darkest of human phenomena. The volume provides an introduction to the myriad dimensions of genocide, and to the various ways of making sense of it. CONTENTS ; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INTRODUCTION: THE STUDY AND HISTORY OF GENOCIDE ; CHAPTER ONE: CONCEPTS ; 1. GENOS AND CIDE BL RAPHAEL LEMKIN ; RAPHAEL LEMKIN, AXIS RULE IN OCCUPIED EUROPE: LAWS OF OCCUPATION, ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT, PROPOSALS FOR REDRESS (1944) ; 2. THE ORIGINAL LEGAL DEFINITION BL UN GENOCIDE CONVENTION ; CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE, ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION 260(III) A OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, DECEMBER 9, 1948 ; 3. ACTUS REUS AND MENS REA OF GENOCIDE BL WILLIAM SCHABAS ; WILLIAM A. SCHABAS, GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE CRIMES OF CRIMES (2009) ; 4. ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT BL THE LEGAL DEFINITION ; REVISED ; U.N. DOC. A/CONF.183/9 ; 5. GENOCIDES AS UTOPIAS OF RACE AND NATION BL ERIC D. WEITZ ; ERIC D. WEITZ, A CENTURY OF GENOCIDE: UTOPIAS OF RACE AND NATION (2003) ; 6. A SOCIOLOGICAL DEFINITION BL HELEN FEIN ; HELEN FEIN, GENOCIDE: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (1991) ; 7. POLITICIDE BL BARBARA HARFF AND TED ROBERT GURR ; BARBARA HARFF AND TED ROBERT GURR, " INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY (1988) ; 8. DEMOCIDE BL R. J. RUMMEL ; R.J. RUMMEL, DEATH BY GOVERNMENT (1994) ; 9. GENDERCIDE BL MARY ANNE WARREN ; MARY ANNE WARREN, GENDERCIDE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF SEX SELECTION (1985) ; 10. CULTURAL GENOCIDE BL DAVID NERSESSIAN ; DAVID NERSESSIAN, " HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE (2005) ; 11. COLONIAL GENOCIDE BL DAVID MAYBURY-LEWIS ; DAVID MAYBURY-LEWIS, " IN ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON, ED., ANNIHILATING DIFFERENCE: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENOCIDE (2002) ; 12. GENOCIDAL MASSACRE BL ISRAEL W. CHARNY ; ISRAEL W. CHARNY, " IN GEORGE J. ANDREOPOULOS, ED., GENOCIDE: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS (1994) ; 13. GENOCIDE AS A FORM OF WAR BL MARTIN SHAW ; MARTIN SHAW, WAR AND GENOCIDE: ORGANIZED KILLING IN MODERN SOCIETY (2003) ; 14. ATROCITY CRIMES BL DAVID SCHEFFER ; DAVID SCHEFFER, " GENOCIDE STUDIES & PREVENTION (2006) ; 15. EXTREMELY VIOLENT SOCIETIES BL CHRISTIAN GERLACH ; CHRISTIAN GERLACH, EXTREMELY VIOLENT SOCIETIES: MASS VIOLENCE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD (2010) ; 16. THE GENOCIDAL CONTINUUM BL NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES ; NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES, " IN JEANNETTE MAGEO, ED., POWER AND THE SELF (2002) ; 17. IS THE HOLOCAUST UNIQUE? BL YEHUDA BAUER ; YEHUDA BAUER, RETHINKING THE HOLOCAUST (2001) ; 18. THE POLITICS OF NAMI...
