The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studiesis the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions. The work is multi-disciplinary, featuring the work of historians, anthropologists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers. Uniquely combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis, this Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire field of 'genocide studies' in one substantial volume.

Professor Geoff Coyle graduated in mining engineering from the Royal School of Mines and worked in a Swedish copper mine and in British coal mines. The contraction of the coal industry led him to develop a career in academic management. Since retirement he has been Visiting Professor of Strategic Analysis in the School of Management, Bath University, Visiting Professor of System Dynamics at London South Bank University and at the Austraiian Defence Force Academy.

Part I: CONCEPTS
1. Editor's Introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide, Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses
2. Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide, A. Dirk Moses
3. 'Ethnic Cleansing' versus Genocide?, Ben Lieberman
4. Gender and Genocide, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
5. The State and Genocide, Anton Weiss-Wendt
6. Genocide and Memory, Dan Stone
Part II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
7. The Law and Genocide, William Schabas
8. Sociology and Genocide, Martin Shaw
9. Political Science and Genocide, Scott Straus
10. Anthropology and Genocide, Kevin Lewis O'Neill
11. Social Psychology and Genocide, Paul Roth
12. Philosophy and Genocide, Martin Shuster
Part III: PREMODERN AND EARLY MODERN GENOCIDE
13. Antiquity, Hans van Wees
14. Early Medieval Europe, James Fraser
15. Central and Late Medieval Europe, Len Scales
16. Colonial Latin America, Nicolas A. Robins
17. Rethinking Genocide in North America, Greg Smithers
Part IV: GENOCIDE IN THE LATE MODERN WORLD
18. Genocide and Mass Violence in the 'Heart of Darkness': Africa in the Colonial Period, Dominik Schaller
19. Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire, Hilmar Kaiser
20. Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR, Nicolas Werth
21. The Nazi Empire, Christopher Browning
22. Twentieth Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Inter-Group Violence, Uradyn Bulag
23. Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia, Robert Cribb
24. State Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia, Geoffrey Robinson
25. National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question, Daniel Feierstein
26. Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, Cathie Carmichael
27. Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa, Alex de Waal
28. War and Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region since Independence, Omar McDoom
Part V: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: RULES AND RESPONSES
29. The United, Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy, Gerd Hankel
30. Military Intervention, Alex J. Bellamy
31. Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Genocidaires, Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas
32. From Past to Future: Future Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century, Mark Levene
Index