The Dark Side of Democracy Explaining Ethnic Cleansing [Paperback]

The Dark Side of Democracy is the most comprehensive study of ethnic cleansing.The Dark Side of Democracy is the most comprehensive study of ethnic cleansing across the world, giving in-depth coverage of terrible cases like Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. It presents a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder. It offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future.The Dark Side of Democracy is the most comprehensive study of ethnic cleansing across the world, giving in-depth coverage of terrible cases like Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. It presents a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder. It offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future.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).1. The argument; 2. Ethnic cleansing in former times; 3. Two versions of 'we, the people'; 4. Genocidal democracies in the New World; 5. Armenia, I: into the danger zone; 6. Armenia, II: genocide; 7. Nazis, I: radicalization; 8. Nazis, II: fifteen hundred perpetrators; 9. Nazis, III: genocidal careers; 10. Germany's allies and auxiliaries; 11. Communist cleansing: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot; 12. Yugoslavia, I: ilS