Final Solutions - Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century (Hardcover)

Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group of powerful leaders and is often carried out without the active support of broader society. Mass killing, in his view, is a brutal political or military strategy designed to accomplish leaders' most important objectives, counter threats to their power and solve their most difficult problems. Valentino does not limit his analysis to violence directed against ethnic groups, or to the attempt to destroy victim groups as such, as do most previous studies of genocide. Rather, he defines mass killing broadly as the intentional killing of a massive number of noncombatants, using the criteria of 50,000 or more deaths within five years as a quantitative standard. killings like the ones carried out in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia; ethnic genocides as in Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda; and counter-guerrilla campaigns including the brutal civil war in Guatemala and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Valentino closes the book by arguing that attempts to prevent mass killing should focus on disarming and removing from power the leaders and small groups responsible for instigating and organizing the killing.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Release date:	2004
Authors:	Benjamin A. Valentino
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-3965-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
LSN:	0-8014-3965-5
Barcode:	9780801439650

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