The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

by Michael Mann

• ISBN13: 9780521538541
• ISBN10: 0521538548
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder, Michael Mann offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future. Michael Mann is the author of Fascists (Cambridge, 2004) and The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge 1986).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 The Argument	1	(33)
2 Ethnic Cleansing in Former Times	34	(21)
3 Two Versions of "We, the People"	55	(15)
4 Genocidal Democracies in the New World	70	(41)
5 Armenia, I: Into the Danger Zone	111	(29)
6 Armenia, II: Genocide	140	(40)
7 Nazis, I: Radicalization	180	(32)
8 Nazis, II: Fifteen Hundred Perpetrators	212	(28)
9 Nazis, III: Genocidal Careers	240	(39)
10 Germany's Allies and Auxiliaries	279	(39)
11 Communist Cleansing: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot	318	(35)
12 Yugoslavia, I: Into the Danger Zone	353	(29)
13 Yugoslavia, II: Murderous Cleansing	382	(46)
14 Rwanda, I: Into the Danger Zone	428	(21)
15 Rwanda, II: Genocide	449	(25)
16 Counterfactual Cases: India and Indonesia	474	(28)
17 Combating Ethnic Cleansing in the World Today	502	(29)
Works Cited	531	(28)
Index	559