WHAT IS GENOCIDE?

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaws classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surroundin g genocide. In a thorough account of the ideas history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concept s like ethnic cleansing and politicide. Offering a radical critique of the existing literature on genocide, he argues that what dis tinguishes genocide from more legitimate warfare is that the enemies targeted are groups and individuals of a civilian character. He vividly i...[Read more]