Ethnic Cleansing : A Social and Legal Examination (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Setting the Problem
2. A Proposed “Consensus” Definition
3. Ancient “Ethnic” Atrocities????????????
4. The Trail of Tears
5. Darfur
6. Bosnia: The “Paradigm Case”?
7. Gaza and the West Bank
8. The Meaning of the Term ‘Ethnic’
9. The Meaning of the Term “Cleansing”
10. Identity and Ethnicity
11. Minority Rights
12. Destroying versus Cleansing
13. Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity
14. The ‘Divorce’ Metaphor
15. The Role of International Criminal Law
16. Prosecuting Perpetrators of Ethnic Cleansing
17. Defenses for Ethnic Cleansing
18. Voluntary Population Transfers
19. Forced Transfers and the “Eminent Domain” Metaphor
20. Justice After Ethnic Cleansing
21. Is Ethnic Cleansing Ever Necessary?
22. The Misuse of the Idea of Purity
23. Conclusions

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