Governments, Citizens, and Genocide
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach
Alex Alvarez
A comprehensive analysis demonstrating how whole societies come
to support the practice of genocide.
"Alex Alvarez has produced an exceptionally comprehensive and
useful analysis of modern genocide... It] is perhaps the most
important interdisciplinary account to appear since Zygmunt Bauman
s classic work, Modernity and the Holocaust."
Stephen Feinstein, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies
"Alex Alvarez has written a first-rate propaedeutic on the
running sore of genocide. The singular merit of the work is its
capacity to integrate a diverse literature in a fair-minded way and
to take account of genocides in the post-Holocaust environment
ranging from Cambodia to Serbia. The work reveals patterns of
authoritarian continuities of repression and rule across cultures
that merit serious and widespread public concern." Irving Louis
Horowitz, Rutgers University
More people have been killed in 20th-century genocides than in
all wars and revolutions in the same period. Recent 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 skillful synthesis of the existing literature on genocide
and important new insights developed from the study of criminal
behavior. He shows that governmental policies and institutions in
genocidal states are designed to suppress the moral inhibitions of
ordinary individuals.
By linking different levels of analysis, and comparing a variety
of cases, the study provides a much more complex understanding of
genocide than have prior studies. Based on lessons drawn from his
analysis, Alvarez offers an important discussion of the ways in
which genocide might be anticipated and prevented.
Alex Alvarez is Associate Professor in the Department of
Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. His primary
research interests are minorities, crime, and criminal justice, as
well as collective and interpersonal violence. He is author of
articles in Journal of Criminal Justice, Social Science History,
and Sociological Imagination and is currently writing a book on
patterns of American murder.
April 2001
240 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, bibl., index
cloth 0-253-33849-2 $29.95 s / 22.95
Contents
The Age of Genocide
A Crime By Any Other Name
Deadly Regimes
Lethal Cogs
Accommodating Genocide
Confronting Genocide
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