Frank Chalk

• Concordia University

StrausScott. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv + 272 pp. Maps, Charts and Tables. Appendix. Bibliography available on-line at www.polisci.wisc.edu. Index. $24.95. Cloth. - Volume 50 Issue 3 - Frank Chalk

Despite the handwringing and promises of "never again," the grim recurrences of genocide and crimes against humanity around the world have made it emphatically clear that the international community has been largely ineffective in stopping mass atrocity crimes. Drawing on candid interviews with eighty key figures involved in American and Canadian r...

Das Wort »Genozid« ruft die Erinnerung an mehrere Massentötungen im 20. Jahrhundert wach: Hitlers Deutschland, Stalins Rußland, Pol Pots Kambodscha, doch auch andere Gewalt drängt sich dem Gedächtnis auf. Und obwohl der Begriff selbst erst in den 40er Jahren geprägt wurde, haben sich die Ereignisse, die er beschreiben will, seit Anbeginn der Geschi...

Several new issues have been raised by scholars and activists which bear on the prediction and prevention of genocide including the salience of the state as the perpetrator of genocide, the distinctiveness of genocide and the importance of intentionality in genocide. Genocide is primarily a crime of state and empirically it has not been true that i...