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| List of illustrations | |
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| About the author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Origins of Genocide | |
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| Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity | |
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| The Vendee uprising | |
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| Zulu genocide | |
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| Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin | |
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| Defining genocide: The UN Convention | |
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| Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Personal observations | |
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| Contested cases | |
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| Atlantic slavery | |
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| Area bombing and nuclear warfare | |
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| UN sanctions against Iraq | |
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| 9/11 | |
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| Structural and institutional violence | |
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| Is genocide ever justified? | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Imperialism, War, and Social Revolution | |
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| Imperialism and colonialism | |
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| Colonial and imperial genocides | |
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| Imperial famines | |
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| The Congo "rubber terror" | |
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| The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia | |
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| The US in Indochina | |
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| The Soviets in Afghanistan | |
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| A note on genocide and imperial dissolution | |
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| Genocide and war | |
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| The First World War and the dawn of industrial death | |
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| The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare" | |
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| Genocide and social revolution | |
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| The nuclear revolution and "omnicide" | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cases | |
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| Genocides of Indigenous Peoples | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Colonialism and the discourse of extinction | |
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| The conquest of the Americas | |
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| Spanish America | |
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| The United States and Canada | |
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| Other genocidal strategies | |
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| A contemporary case: The Maya of Guatemala | |
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| Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Herero | |
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| Genocide in Australia | |
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| The Herero genocide | |
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| Denying genocide, celebrating genocide | |
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| Complexities and caveats | |
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| Indigenous revival | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Armenian Genocide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins of the genocide | |
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| War, massacre, and deportation | |
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| The course of the Armenian genocide | |
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| The aftermath | |
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| The denial | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Stalin's Terror | |
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| The Bolsheviks seize power | |
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| Collectivization and famine | |
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| The Gulag | |
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| The Great Purge of 1937-38 | |
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| The war years | |
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| The destruction of national minorities | |
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| Stalin and genocide | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Jewish Holocaust | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins | |
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| "Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis | |
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| The turn to mass murder | |
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| Debating the Holocaust | |
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| Intentionalists vs. functionalists | |
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| Jewish resistance | |
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| The Allies and the churches: Could the Jews have been saved? | |
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| Willing executioners? | |
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| Israel and the Jewish Holocaust | |
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| Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"? | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge | |
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| Origins of the Khmer Rouge | |
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| War and revolution, 1970-75 | |
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| A genocidal ideology | |
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| A policy of "urbicide", 1975 | |
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| "Base people" vs. "new people" | |
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| Cambodia's holocaust, 1975-79 | |
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| Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities | |
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| Aftermath: Politics and the quest for justice | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bosnia and Kosovo | |
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| Origins and onset | |
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| Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia | |
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| The international dimension | |
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| Kosovo, 1998-99 | |
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| Aftermaths | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Holocaust in Rwanda | |
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| Introduction: Horror and shame | |
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| Background to genocide | |
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| Genocidal frenzy | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Science Perspectives | |
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| Psychological Perspectives | |
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| Narcissism, greed, and fear | |
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| Narcissism | |
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| Greed | |
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| Fear | |
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| Genocide and humiliation | |
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| The psychology of perpetrators | |
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| The Zimbardo experiments | |
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| The psychology of rescuers | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sociological perspectives | |
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| The sociology of modernity | |
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| Ethnicity and ethnic conflict | |
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| Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists" | |
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| "Middleman minorities" | |
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| Anthropological perspectives | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Political Science and International Relations | |
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| Empirical investigations | |
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| The changing face of war | |
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| Democracy, war, and genocide/democide | |
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| Norms and prohibition regimes | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Gendering Genocide | |
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| Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide | |
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| Women and genocide | |
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| Gendercidal institutions | |
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| Genocide and violence against homosexuals | |
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| Are men more genocidal than women? | |
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| A note on gendered propaganda | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Future of Genocide | |
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| Memory, Forgetting, and Denial | |
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| The struggle over historical memory | |
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| Germany and "the search for a usable past" | |
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| The politics of forgetting | |
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| Genocide denial: Motives and strategies | |
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| Denial and free speech | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Justice, Truth, and Redress | |
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| Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo | |
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| The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda | |
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| Jurisdictional issues | |
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| The concept of a victim group | |
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| Gender and genocide | |
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| National trials | |
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| The "mixed tribunals": Cambodia and Sierra Leone | |
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| Another kind of justice: Rwanda's gacaca experiment | |
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| The Pinochet case | |
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| The International Criminal Court (ICC) | |
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| International citizens' tribunals | |
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| Truth and reconciliation | |
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| The challenge of redress | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Strategies of Intervention and Prevention | |
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| Warning signs | |
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| Humanitarian intervention | |
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| Sanctions | |
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| The United Nations | |
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| When is military intervention justified? | |
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| A standing "peace army"? | |
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| Ideologies and individuals | |
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| The role of the honest witness | |
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| Ideologies, religious and secular | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for further study | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |