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Midterm 1: COPY Flashcards

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Define Genocide Etimology

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  • Geno: Race or Tribe
  • Cide: Killing
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UN Definition of Genocide

Formulation of intent

Goal

Mode of annihilation

target

perpetrator

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• Formulation of intent?
Coordinated plan
 Must be proven intent on part of perpetrator, cultural destruction or discretion (?) does not count

• Goal of genocide?
 Destroy in part or in whole of targeted groups

• What is the mode of annihilation?
 destructive “Mass killing conditions, & institutional birth prevention, destruction forcible of culture” child

• Who is the target?:
 National groups, ethnic groups, religious groups, racial groups

• Who is the perpetrator?
 No clear actor mentioned–> everyone

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Lemkin Definition of Genocide

Formulation of intent

Goal

Mode of annihilation

target

perpetrator

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• Formulation of Intent?
 “coordinated plan.”
• Goal
 “aim of annihilating the groups themselves”
• Mode of annihilation
 “Mass killing & institutional destruction & personal security”
• Target
 “Nation or ethnic group”
• Perpetrator
 “Oppressor states”

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Problems with these definitions?

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Formulation of intent–Jones: actualization of intent however successfully carried out–> same broadness, but also observability could be through coordinated plan or through other ways—> intent can materialize but also captures different forms it can be materialized

Goal: “The Numbers problem”

Mode of annihilation: Genocide could happen without one person being killed, as long as under conditions in which person could be killed

Target: inclusion of racial and religious in UN not lemkin, neither political group, social group, gender

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Potential Definition

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Actualized intent to physically and violently destroy a group as a whole (including civilians) where the group is constituted as an organic collectivity by the perpetrators.

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HOLOCAUST: 5 Layers of Anti-Semitism

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Time frame- Form-Problem-Solution-Historical Transitions

4-18th Cent: Religious–religious beliefs–segregation/ conversion/ occasional violence–rise of Christianity/reformation

18-19th Cent: Liberal–religious traditions–assimilation, emancipation–enlightenment

18-19th Cent: Economic– parasitical nature–discrimination–Emancipation and Industrial Revolution

19th-20th Century: Racial–impurity–quarantine and elimination–Scientific racism and Colonialism

Late 19th 20th Century: Nationalistic–disloyal–nuetralization–WWI, Russian Revolution

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Why Questions to Ask

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  1. Why this group?
  2. Why this place and time?
  3. Why Mass Murder?
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HOLOCAUST: Why Mass Murder- Jews?

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specific military and geo-political conditions turned it into an explosion of mass violence which preoccupied or self-interested bystanders did not resist with sufficient force.

Why mass murder?

  1. Cheapening of human life before Nazi takeover
  2. Domestic experimentation (1933-1939)
  3. International experimentation (1939-1940)
  4. Expansion and systematization (1940-1942)
  5. Peak years (1942-1943)
  6. Death throes (1944-1945)
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HOLOCAUST: Why Germany 1930s and 1940s?

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a movement in Germany, a country located at the center of several major transformations of: -enlightenment, Emancipation and Industrial Revolution, Scientific racism and Colonialism, WWI, Russian Revolution lifted this fixation to power in the 1930s

–> Hitler’s antisemitism: Took 5 Layers of Anti-Semitism (religious, liberal, racial, national, and economic) and put together in one ideology

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HOLOCAUST: Peak Years 1942-1943

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War–> Jewish Problem and Resources to kill–> Final Solution

Wannsee

Three steps & Problems
• Expulsion (expansion)
• Concentration (food, disease, security risk)
• resistance, Manual killing in the (labor West?) intensive,

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HOLOCAUST: Expansion and Systemization

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Ethnic revenge through minority rule

  • -> Expansion Westward
  • -> Balkans
  • -> Invasion SU

All lead to control over more Jews

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HOLOCAUST: Experimenation

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Poland

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HOLOCAUST: Snyder “Bloodlands”

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• Double-occupation land (SU and Germans)
• Poles perceive their Jewish neighbors as collaborators with the SU
–> Opportunity for revenger, Deployment Militias

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HOLOCAUST: Intenationalism

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  • Holocaust happened because Hitler intended to kill the Jews early on (redemptive antisemitism)
  • Devised a system to do so
  • Emigration & concentration temporary stopgaps
  • After invasion SU Hitler implemented his plan
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HOLOCAUST: Functionalism

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  • No directives from higher up: Hitler never ordered for Jews to be killed, but
  • Local bureaucrats developed local solutions to “Jewish problem” (e.g. in Poland).
  • Over time less radical solutions were no longer available and mass killing became an option
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HOLOCAUST: Bergen Explains Holocaust

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BOTH Internationalism and Functionalism

Hitler made clear what he wanted to do with the Jews.
• Local solutions were created in light of this goal
• Competition between different local actors activated a spiral of radicalization (working towards the Fuhrer).
• Hence it could not have happened without
 Hitler’s clear intentions (intentionalist)
 Local solutions (functionalist)

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Why the Ottoman empire in 1915?

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 Imperialism->Decline
 Nationalism & separatism->Decline
 Young Turk revolution

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Why the Armenians?

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 Young Turk racism
 The Armenian renaissance
 European interference
 The Russian-Ottoman faultline

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
Why mass violence in 1915?

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 Cumulative radicalization
 WWI, Van Uprising

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
Timelines

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  • –> “The Sick Man of Europe”
  • –> Rise of Nationalism–> Greek independence, MULTI-ETHNIC EMPIRE
  • –> Tanzimat reforms by Abdulmejid—Sultan (1839-1876)—> economic modernization, legal modernization, poor implementation
  • -> Russo-Turkish war (1877-1878)—> Treaty of Berlin
  • –> Sultan Hamid II (1876)–> rebuild empire, end reforms
  • -> Armenian mobilization against centralization
  • –> 1890s Massacres of Armenians
  • -> Financial Crisis 1880s
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Treaty of Berlin

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Russo-Turkish War–> Russians help Slavic Brothers
 Autonomy for Serbia, Romania, Montenegro
 Protection for Christian minorities
 Forced entry Christian missionaries inside Ottoman Empire

CONSEQUENCES: Emboldens minorities, less diverse, muslim refugees–> revenge

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: CUP

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Young Turks (Nationalist) vs. Progressive 
---\> Young turks win --\> German trained, Nationalist, want less focus on empire
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Balkan wars + Counterrevolution=

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MORE NATIONALISM

  • -> lose territory
  • ->Weakening of democracy
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Armenian Renaissance

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marketization, urbanization, industrialization that had created differences between the Ottoman Empire and its neighbors
• 1878: Urban Armenians are in trade and finance (Christian networks–> diaspora community w/ international ties) Benefit from the rise of the West
—> Majority of trader, major exporters, major industrialists, bankers Armenian
• Rural Armenians (in border region with Russia) benefit from grain imports from Russia

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Reason 3: Ottoman-Russian fault line

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• War of 1829-1829 (Splits)
• War of 1877-1878
 Armenian Russians prominent in army
 some Armenians on Ottoman side join Russian army when invading
• Berlin treaty: further annexation
–> Armenians living in this territory celebrate
 Turks forced out and replaced with Armenians

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Reason 4: Armenian Mobilization

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  1. Nationalist Mobilization (Dashnaks)
  2. Marxist Mobilization (Hunchnak group)
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Why mass killing?

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 Normalization of violence
—> 1894: Sasun massacre
• 1890s: Violent repression of Armenian Marxists in cities (Hunchak)
• Counterrevolution against CUP
 WWI
—> REVENGE, TERRITORY (SPACE), RACE, MINORITY PROTECTION
 Van Uprising

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Jewish identity vs Armenian identity

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Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust by Jason Wittenberg and Jeffrey Kopstein—> • Minority bloc in Poland
 United minorities in Poland->gaining autonomy
 Zionist leader
 Difference: unified several minorities under that banner
• More pogroms in towns with high support for minority block

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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Three Groups and Characteristics

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 Twa: 6th century, 1st original group, Hunters and gatherers. 1990: 1% population
 Huti: 7th century, Crop cultivators. 1990: 84% population
 Tutsi: 8/9th century, Cattle traders, 1990: 15% population

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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Hutu and Tutsi Boundary

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Not Fixed 
• Social class not ethnic identity--\> social mobility allowed to move 
• Socio-economic class status
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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Why Tutsis?

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  1. Colonial politics->Activation ethnic boundary
    —> Berlin Conference (1884)
    —> Germans: Introduce Hamitic myth
    –> Versailes Treaty: Rwanda goes to Belgium–> further racism
    —> Mid-1950s: Nationalism among Tutsis, Belgians reverse status–> inversion of Hamitic Myth
  2. Decolonization->Envy and threat through status reversal
    Independence 1960s—> 300,000 Tutsis flee to Burundi
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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Tutsis in Burundi found…

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RPF Try to destabilize Rwanda by launching attacks from Burundi

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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Why Rwanda in 1994?

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  • Economic crisis creates threats to Hutu elites
  • Democratization creates threats to Hutu elites
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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Why Rwanda Timeline

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1973: Coup Habyararimana –> strict ethnic policies, business interests first, strong informal economy

Late 1980s: economic unrest–> coffee price falls, International debt, IMF/World Bank/France–>  Structural adjustment: open markets & reduce informal economy

Late 1980s: political unrest–> • IMF/World Bank/France loan for multi-party system

  • –> Rise Left wing non-ethnic parties against Hutu elites
  • -> Rise Hutu extremists against Hutu elites (Akazu)

Habyararimana responds:
Hutu nationalism, (Akuzu) into party, racism in school, propaganda on radio, “Hutu 10 Commandments”

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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Fault-lines Activated Late 1980s:

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Political elite: Hutu and Rich–> don’t want to activate wealth fault line because then would be in majority, instead invoke Hutu racial line

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RWANDA GENOCIDE: Why mass killing in 1994?

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• Invasion RPF (group of Tutsis in Burundi)
• Arusha accords—> peace accords in aftermath of war due to invasion of RPF International Community steps in
–> Requires Power sharing government–> ethnic groups need to share power
—> International community deploys UN troops guard the peace
• Plane crash Habyararimana
—> RPF Invasion, response killing and blockades

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STRAUSS Readings: Negative Case Studies

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Cote d’ivoire or Ivory coast vs. Rwanda? Sources of RESTRAINT

Method of difference: Negative cases (Strauss)
• No sampling on the dependent variable
• Compare cases that vary in outcome to be explained (Genocide)
• Choose case that is very similar but does not experience a genocide
• Trace differences
• Allows one to see how the absence of something matters (restraint)

Straus
• Why did genocide break out in Rwanda but not in Ivory Coast?
• Ivory coast as a negative case:
 Very similar on a lot of dimensions–> instability, democratization, war, active militias, political elites condoned violence
 On the verge of Genocide
 Retreated from the brink BECAUSE: sources of economic restraint and culture of dialogue by leaders

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SOME Ways of looking at genocide:

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Methods of agreement and Methods of difference

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Forces of Constraint Ivory Coast vs. Rwanda (according to Strauss)

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 Culture of dialogue–> promotes form of tolerance
 Economic interests–> more dependent upon exports, would suffer greater economic consequences if commit mass murder

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Macro-Level Theories

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Question: Why do genocides break out?

Actors:States, nations, elites, global forces

  • –> High aggregation level
  • –> focuses less on individual cases
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Common Explanations of Genocide in methods of agreement

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  • -> WAR
  • –> AGGRESSIVE NATIONALISM
  • –> DEMOCRATIZATION
  • –> DECLINE
  • –> MISMATCH RACE AND SPACE
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BOSNIAN GENOCIDE:

Three groups

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 Serbs (Orthodox)
 Croats (Roman Catholic)
 Bosniacs (Muslim)
• Mixed 1991–> people from neighboring countries living there, some concentration of groups, but largely living together in same localities

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BOSNIAN GENOCIDE:
Why ethnic antagonism? TIMELINE

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Faultline of Rome and Constantinople
—> 1054 Split: East Balkans: Serbs- >Orthodox (first form of Serbs) and West Balkans: Rest->Roman Catholic—> Bosnia and Serbia–> independent states

• 1400s: Both Bosnia and Serbia become Part of Ottoman Empire—> Bosnians convert to Islam
—> Battle of Kosovo (start of a myth)

• 1878: Decline Ottoman empire—> Serbian independence–> greater Serbia myth

• WWI—> Kingdom of Yugoslavia forms
—> Serbians dominate, Croats annexed, Bosnians not recognized

  • WWII: Revenge through minority rule –> resistance by Chetniks and Communists—> Tito rise
  • Decentralization under Tito 1960-1980

1980: Kosovo independence movement, 1981 Put down

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BOSNIAN GENOCIDE: Why 1995?

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Economic & political problems late 1980s
–> End Cold War, Lose Special Status, Oil Crisis, Debt IMF structural adjustments—> conditional loans for Multiparty system

SANU-Memorandum 1986: Claim Serbian oppression, Ustase returning to power, greater Serbia, denounced by Serbian pres., Milosovic support

Milosevic rides the waves of nationalism, Kosovo, Communist into nationalist party
—> Media declares Serbs under attack

Slovenia: 1991 Independence

Croatia: 1991 • Nationalist party led by Tudjman, Greater Croatia Proclaim independence

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BOSNIAN GENOCIDE: Why Mass Killing?

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Serbians declare open war in Slovenia–> Open war in Croatia

Bosnian Response: Leader Izetbegovic Rotating leadership (Bosnian rules, serb rules, croat rules)
 Serbs and Croats abdicate—> under influence of developments in Serbia no longer want to take part

Bosnian independence
• EU declares support for independence in both Croatia and Slovenia

• Bosnian-Serbs declare independence in response

Open war breaks out in Bosnia
• Day of the referendum Serbian military invades Bosnia and circles Sarajevo
 Claim to defend Yugoslavia

RESPONSE: Self-defense units form

People flee, mass murder, and rape

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BOSNIAN GENOCIDE: 1993 Vance-Owen Peace plan

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  • NATO threatens with airstrikes—> make peace or BOMB
  • Peace plan: divide between serbs, croats and Bosnians, Safe-areas for Bosniaks–> where Bosniaks live and protected by UN Soldiers
  • UN protection (use of force)
  • Talks fail->Fighting continues
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BOSNIAN GENOCIDE: Sebrenic

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• Falls to Bosnia Serb militias (led by Mladic)
• 400 Dutch UN soldiers meant protect Bosnians from Croats, don’t
NATO intervention
 “Operation Deliberate Force”

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Violence and human nature:
• William Golding vs. Margaret Mead

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• William Golding Lord of the Flies: humans brutal animals hardwired to commit violence, only avoid because of veneer of civilization
• Margaret Mead Coming of Age in Samoa: Men actually good and peaceful —>why we fight war: We invented war and that is what made us killers
 Draws on Rouseau

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Violence and modernity: Rousseau

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  • Human nature = good
  • Violence created by Property, Ideology, Killing machinery
  • War and violence are modern inventions–> governments produce rather than tame violence)
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Violence and modernity: Hobbes: 1640 England

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• Human nature bad.
• Without a strong authority men would be living in anarchy–>
• Without a constant a strong state of authority war, as if men of every, would against live in every men.
• Need The Leviathan:
–> peaceful need a strong government
—>Nothing in the state of nature, if you would create or produce something people would murder you–> no one has incentive to produce

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Structure according to Hobbes

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War of all against all–> unhappy life–> individuals give up rights–> formation of state–> cost of disobediance–> individual compliance–> social order

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Two paths out of this condition to building state:

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 Peaceful: Commonwealth institution
 Violent: Commonwealth by acquisition (using violence to create order from above)

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Bellicist Perspective on war

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  • -> Wars catalysts for important social change.
  • –> Leviathan end result of war
  • –>Universities, property rights, courts, democracies
  • –>Demands of war create opportunities for innovation and adaptation.
  • –> shaped modern society
  • –> In the West: war produced STRONG nation-states.
  • –>Strong nation-states, after being produced by war, create peace!
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State

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state is an entity that uses coercion and the threat of force to rule in a given territory.
 Monopoly of violence (requires the ability of organized use of violence)
 Legitmacy

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Nation

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a group of people who imagine they share some sort of common identity like a language, a religion, an ethnicity, or common history.

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Nation State

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state in which a single nation predominates and the legal, social, demographic, and geographic boundaries of the state are connected in important ways to that nation.

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State as “Protection Rackets” (Tilly 1985)

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Protection Racket—>
• States trade security for revenue
• Seller of security (which they create need for) represents a key threat to the buyer of security.

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Main Tasks of Protection Rackets

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  1. Make War: eliminating rival protection rackets
  2. Control: eliminate rivals inside your territory.
  3. Protect: eliminate enemies of those who you protect
  4. Extraction: acquire enough capital, loyalty and soldiers to make war, control, and protect
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Strong state and Scientific Knowledge

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Strong state and scientific knowledge: self-reinforcing processes:
 Strong state can facilitate acquisition of better scientific knowledge
 Scientific knowledge produces stronger state

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War and Scientific Knowledge:

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 Scientific revolution—> independent exploration (new guns, new boats, new technologies) —>win more wars–> more power
 Protection bracket= incentive to invest in scientific knowledge—> create universities—> creates better weaponry, etc.
 Results in decline of religious knowledge and rise in scientific knowledge

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War & Taxation

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  • War requires taxation, legitimates state/racket taxation, means through which to collect taxes: strong army, increase power of state.
  • War and taxation reinforce eachother
  • Taxes reflect power and legitimacy of the state
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Strong state and bureaucracy

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Stronger state with more opportunity to invest in resources–> creates bureaucracy

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Max Weber on Authority

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 Bureaucracy–> different way of organizing authority
 Authority distinguished from power—> Power: gun to head do something; authority: don’t need threat of force to make do something
 Authority relationships in modern societies started shifting fundamentally—> used to be based on tradition (royalty, religion—> appeal to sacred rule appeals to obedience)
Modern Authority–>legally and rationally ordered, No personal master. Obey to roles instead, obey rules and laws, society organized around this

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Weber’s ambivalence on bureaucracy

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cooperation/integration people.
Magic driven out.–>impersonal, divided up in small tasks, no longer producing only in charge of small piece of production process
• Without a heart->Rationality without morality
 No longer interacting with process
• Iron cage.

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Bauman: Dark side of bureaucracy

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• Claims Bureaucracies are for responsible for rise of genocides–> modern phenomenon
• Holocaust is intertwined with modern civilization
• Bureaucracy was a necessary condition for the Holocaust, i.e. industrial killing –> large coordination needed to make holocaust happen
• Rules, differentiation, routines and authority
—> networks of cooperation
—>distance between perpetrators and victims
—> distance between perpetrators and killing—> don’t see people dying
–_> obedience to authority (follow rules and follow orders)
—> Erode moral behavior
—> Large scale violence can be used without moral considerations–> small piece

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Warfare Summed up

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producing stronger states, peace??

Nationalism, Bureaucracy, Reason, Commerce, war with STRONG STATE AT CENTER

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War and genocide (Weitz)

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war intimately linked with genocide
• War–> linked to genocide because…
 Battle between at least two groups with opposing goals (in group and outgroup genocide)
 Accompanied by violence, victims, devastation
• Consequences of warfare: Both long-term and short term

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Nationalism produces:

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war and revolutions

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Nationalism and Genocide Links

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  • -> Internal colonialism
  • –> External colonialism
  • –> Revolution
  • –> Nationalist Revolutions
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Revolutionary dimensions and genocide (WEITZ)

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CREATION OF UTOPIA–> perfect society, population, distinctinction, popular mobilization, breakdown of pre-existing norms

  1. Promotes ideological Utopia->Outsiders (fall outside of utopia)->Target group
  2. Mobilization population->Capacity for mobilization of people for collective violence against groups
  3. Changing authority->Disorder->Opportunity for killing
  4. Use of force-> Promotion of violence->Mode of annihilation–> acceptance of violence and violent solutions
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Commerce and genocide

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revolutionary dynamics and resentment
• Rise of social classes
• Inequality
• Conflict over property
• Resentment among losers of modernization
• Social Revolution
–> CREATED NEED FOR RACISM —> scientific revolution—> ideas in scientific discourse that can be adopted and legitimize exploitation/racism

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Scientific Revolution and Genocide

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UNIVERSAL MANKIND: Darwin: mankind as one species (universal mankind). Positive selection of Individual level mutations.

NO UNIVERSAL MANKIND:
• Spencer: Survival of the Fittest
• Combined Darwin’s insights about individuals to groups and societies.
• Legitimized group hierarchies and domination.
• Galton: Eugenics: selective breeding of the fittest people

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IDEATIONAL EXPLANATIONS:

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The plural society theory: Leo Kuper
Goldhagen
Kiernan

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The plural society theory: Leo Kuper

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  • Genocides= products of deep societal cleavages
  • deep ethnic, religious or economic divisions—-> discrimination, mutual distrust, hatred—->Dehumanization—> violence
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Goldhagen and the Holocaust

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  • distinct German characteristic leads to willingness among German population to kill
  • Eliminationist anti-Semitism–> leads to rise in Nazis
  • Nazis provide opportunity to participate

INFLUENTIAL FOR POLICY MAKERS

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Problems with Goldhagen

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• Assumes group boundaries are fixed (ancient hatred)
• Neighbors become killers
 How is that possible if hatreds are ancient
• Cleavages are wide spread but genocide actually quite rare
• Timing?
• Does not explain why do groups operate like unfired actors?

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Kiernan

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1965 killings in Indonesia and killings in East Timor (GENOCIDE)? EXPLAIN DIFFERENCE?
5 Ideational components that shape whether genocide takes place and when 5 ideas come together genocide emerges
1. Racism
2. Religious prejudice
3. Expansionist Narratives
4. Narrative of Decline
5. Myths of cultivation

***ideas of CULTIVATION

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Critique of Kiernan

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  • ->Need to understand where these ideas come from
  • -> Narratives and ideas or related to objective changes in society that produce this outcome
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: MELSON

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Social revolution linked to genocide:

  • -> Social revolutions are likely to pass through a radical phase in which revolutionary vanguards attempt to destroy their supposed enemies and to create a new political community in line with their ideologies.
  • –> Social revolutions create opportunities for movements that had espoused genocide even before the revolution to seize power and to implement their policies.
  • -> Regimes opposing revolutions may use genocidal methods not only against their political enemies but against the social groups from which their opponents spring.
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Armenian Genocide and Holocaust–MELSON

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(1) Despised minorities undergoing rapid social mobilization and adaptation to the modern world
 the social mobilization of despised minorities made them targets of genocidal movements
(2) Both imperial regimes were swept away by revolution and war and both were succeeded by revolutionary vanguards who became the perpetrators of the two genocides
 revolutions-created the conditions for genocidal movements to come to power and radicalized the views of revolutionary vanguards who had seized power
(3) occurred in the midst of major wars.
 wartime facilitated the implementation of genocide as a policy of the state.

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BAUMAN THEORY:

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• Pillars of modernity—Rationality, technology, industry, bureaucracy—were not incidental but integral to the destruction of European Jews

• Rules, differentiation, routines and authority
 Facilitate Large networks of cooperation that killed
 Create distance between perpetrators and victims
 Create distance between perpetrators and killing—> don’t see people dying
 Creates obedience to authority (follow rules and follow orders)
 Erode moral behavior

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Paradox of civilized barbarity

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• Paradox of the civilized barbarian
 Modernity->Violence goes down
 Modernity->Produces genocide

83
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Valentino on Plural Society theory

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severity of cleavages not reliable indicator

84
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War and Genocide WEITZ

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• War–> linked to genocide because…
 Battle between at least two groups with opposing goals
 Accompanied by violence, victims, devastation
• Genocide also need: At least 2 groups
 Ingroup-out group dynamics (perpetrator and killer)
• Victims, violence, devastation

**Long and short term consequences of war

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Nationalism and genocide

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war and revolutions–>

Internal and external colonization:

Revolutionary dimensions (Weitz):
• An utopian ideal to transform society (classless, national) driving revolution
• Mass mobilization of the population–> large groups of people involved
• Transformation of authority structures
• Use of force (but not always)

Nationalist revolutions

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Commerce and genocide

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Commerce and genocide
 Linked to genocide in two ways: revolutionary dynamics and resentment
• Commerce and classes
• Rise of social classes
• Inequality
• Conflict over property
• Resentment among losers of modernization
• Social Revolution

Rise of modern nation state–> created ideas about racism
 Commerce provided need for racism
 Scientific revolution created ability to exploit and apply racism

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Democracy and Genocide: Rummel

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• The more people influence decision making the more democratic a country—> the less likely a genocide becomes
Constraints limit violence–> power kills. absolute power kills absolutely

88
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Mann: Dark Side of Democracy –> 3 conditions for peace and what happens if broken?

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We the people–> creates US vs. Them

• Under 3 conditions democratization does not fuse with other fault lines and leads to domestic peace (i.e. England) —> needed for it to be peaceful

  1. Economic development: strong bourgeoisie (middle-class that can carry democracy)
  2. Strong connections between state and society–> democratic legacies, bureaucracies, free media
  3. Ethnic homogeneity at the time democratization starts
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Democratization and England–>

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Strong Bureacracy–> mobile capital, elites want influence–> strong institutional legacy w/ courts–> taxation/ bureaucracy

DEMOCRACY IS ELITE PROJECT

ethnic homogeneity

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SNYDER and democratization

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NATIONALISM–> unite people

  1. popular rivalries
  2. elite persuasion

***exclusionary

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Three types of exclusionary nationalism Snyder

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ethnic, counterrevolutionary, revolutionary

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Ethnic nationalism comes from…

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institutional dessert

93
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Snyder: should avoid…

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ethnically based federalism and regional autonomy–> bring in speech slowly

94
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Mann: instability that led to genocide

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Truly murderous cleansing unexpected, originally unintended, emerging out of unrelated crises like war. Conversely, when states and geopolitics remain stable, even severe ethnic tensions and violence tend to be cyclical and manageable at lesser levels of violence

  • Rwanda: fragmenting and factionalizing
  • Nazis: newly consolidated, determinedly repressing dissidents and factionalism
  • Bosnian and Croatian States: brand-new states, consolidation was very uneven
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Disposessive mass killing

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Dispossessive mass killing
• “Policies that by design or a by consequence strip large groups of their way of life”
• Often a “final solution”, less extreme solutions have not worked
 Reforms
 Repression
 Forced migration
 Deportation
 Mass killing

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Valentino cause of genocide

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STRATEGIC

ARGUMENT: looking for causes of mass killing: should begin with the specific goals and strategies of high political and military leadership, not with broad social or political structures. –> society smaller role–> mass killing rarely neighbor against neighbor
• Impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group of powerful political or military leaders, not from the desires of the broader society.

• Violence occurs when powerful leaders come to believe it is the most “practical” way to accomplish certain radical goals, counter powerful threats or solve difficult military problems. Broader elements of society need not share these goals or the conviction that mass killing is the best way to achieve
them.

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Midlarsky

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Consequences of Loss:
1. Refugees–> emotional reaction
2. Blame perceived or actual injury –> loss compensation –> revenge feels goods
3. Those perceived to be at fault also refugees or viewed as comfortable and wealthy–> targeted for massacre or ultimately genocide
*competing for same resource–> and class
4.. Prospect theory: losses valued more highly than gains–> asymmetry
5. Importance of territoriality should not be minimized–> territory=fundamental to state secruit mass brutalities justified in name of state

Risk-taking, minimization of loss, punishment

Paradoxes Soc (3 decks)

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