Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions

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George J. Andreopoulos
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 - History - 265 pages
"The authors first examine the legal and social-theoretical criteria by which mass killings have been categorized as genocide and debate the extent to which various definitions may lead to conceptual misuse. Four case studies then cast the theoretical discussion into the historical realm by recounting the mass killings of the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire; the Turkish suppression of the Kurds and the Iraqi chemical warfare waged against its Kurdish population; the plight of the East Timorese after the Indonesian invasion; and the brutal fate of the Cambodians under Khmer Rouge rule." "This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, international law, political science, sociology, and history."--Jacket.
 

Contents

Uses and Abuses
31
Redefining Genocide
47
Toward a Generic Definition of Genocide
64
Etiology and Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide
111
The Suppression of the Dersim
141
A Case of Cultural Genocide?
171
Issues and Responses
191
Text of the 1948 Genocide Convention
229
Selected Bibliography
249
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George J. Andreopoulos is Professor of Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, where he directs the Center for International Human Rights. He is the coeditor, with Richard Pierre Claude, of Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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