The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Preliminary considerations 2. Case selection Part II. Explaining Perpetrators: Theoretical Foundations: 3. Continuity and validation 4. Prologue to theory 5. A theoretical framework Part III. The Theory Applied: 6. Threat of numbers, realpolitik, and ethnic cleansing 7. Realpolitik and loss 8. The need for unity and altruistic punishment 9. Perpetrating states Part IV. Victim Vulnerability: Explaining Magnitude and Manner of Dying: 10. Raison d'etat, raison d'eglise 11. Cynical realpolitik and the unwanted 12. High victimization: the role of realpolitik 13. Inequality and absence of identification 14. On the possibility of revolt and altruistic punishment Part V. Exceptions: 15. A dog of different nature: the Cambodian Politicide 16. Dogs that didn't bark I: realpolitik and the absence of loss 17. Dogs that didn't bark II: affinity and vulnerability reduction Part VI. Conclusion: 18. Findings, consequences, and prevention.

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