What is a genocide? That question is as essential for comparative analysis as it is difficult to
answer. To investigate common causes among similar cases—a presumptive goal of …

The idea for the development of this Dictionary of Genocide was conceived by Samuel
Totten in the late 1990s. This was at a time when an ever-increasing number of scholars in …

Genocide studies is simultaneously an emerging and accepted category of scholarly inquiry.
The field is robust and at a critical turning point as more disciplines engage the subject. This …

Our thinking is unavoidably constrained by our conceptual structures. To the extent that we
re ect on and reconstruct our concepts, however, we can sharpen our thinking. The fi rst …

The field of comparative genocide studies has grown beyond recognition over the past two
decades, though more quantitatively than qualitatively. On the surface, everything looks …

In order to pursue a thorough scholarly investigation of genocide, two prerequisites must be
met:(1) a governing conceptual defi nition of genocide, and (2) a common guiding schemata …

Comparative research on the determinants of genocide has surged in recent years, as
reflected in the six books under review. The new research makes genocide studies more …

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet
published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students …

The question posed in the title of this essay appears to be nonsensical, if not outright self-
contradictory, but in fact it is not. As we will see below, several wellknown students of …

Over the last two decades, the interdisciplinary field of genocide studies has dramatically
expanded and matured. 1 Genocide studies no longer stands in the shadow of Holocaust …