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This work seeks to address two closely related questions, what is the process by which the relatively short and violent genocides of the twentieth century and beyond have occurred and why have these instances of mass violence been genocidal and not some other form of state violence, repression, or conflict?
Sommario
Chapter 1: The genocidal process: a constructivist approach
Introduction
Part I: Theorizing the "permissive" socio-political environment of genocide
Introduction
I. The ‘permissive’ socio-political environment: a theoretical overview
II. Three dimensions of the permissive socio-political environment of genocide
Chapter 2: Germany
I. Exclusionary and unequal patterns of group interaction
II. Exclusionary conceptions of the community
III. Authoritarian modes of conflict management
Chapter 3: Cambodia
I. Exclusionary and unequal patterns of group interaction
II. Exclusionary conceptions of the community
III. Authoritarian modes of conflict management
Conclusion to Part I
Part II: Introduction crises and interpretation: the catalyst for killing
Introduction
Chapter 4: Inter-war Germany: crises and interpretation
I. Security crises
II. Economic crises
III. Political crises
Chapter 5: Cambodia: the Sihanoukist and Lon Nol years: crises and interpretation
I. Economic crises
II. Political crises
III. Military and security crises
Conclusion to Part II
Part III: Reconceptualizing the victim group: the "three switches" of genocide
Introduction
I. Genocide as a strategic or rational choice?
II. Constructing victims: a constructivist explanation
III. The "three switches"
III. Warrants for genocide
Chapter 6: Nazi final solution
I. Switch one: victims as foreigners
II. Switch two: victims as mortal threats
III. Switch three: victims as sub-humans
Chapter 7: The Khmer Rouge killing fields
I. Switch one: victims as foreigners
II. Switch two: victims as mortal threat
III. Switch three:victims as sub-humans
Chapter 8: Vietnam: abuses without genocide
I. Switch one: victims as wayward opponents
II. Switch two: the threat of actors with real power
Conclusion to Part III
Info autore
Maureen S. Hiebert is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.
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This work seeks to address two closely related questions, what is the process by which the relatively short and violent genocides of the twentieth century and beyond have occurred and why have these instances of mass violence been genocidal and not some other form of state violence, repression, or conflict?
