In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even...
Through an intellectually stimulating and empirical approach to global studies, students examine how key factors—forces, interactions, and tensions—contribute to world events and global problems.
Challenging the prevailing wisdom, Straus provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research to assess competing theories about about the causes and dynamics of the genocide.