Reviews for Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach

The average rating for Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-02 00:00:00 Steve Pimentel This, along with The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert Kaplan, was a leading early-1990s analysis of the post-Soviet world, and spot-on in its conclusions. In essence, he predicted future conflicts that would be far more chaotic, low-tech and complicated than what had happened before. The comparisons to Clausewitz are, in part, because the separation of state, army and people as entities in conflicts, one that went back from the 20th Century all the way to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, was breaking down. This was starting to be manifest in the Balkans even when this book first published, and has been more and more apparent. Book's conclusions and analysis are still timely.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-06 00:00:00 Nancy Sneider There is some good analysis of terrorism and how non state actors interact with state actors. Unfortunately his analysis of Clausewitzian warfare is fundamentally flawed. He seems to think that the Clausewitzian trinity is a state based interaction between the people, the army and the government. If he had read a decent translation of 'On War' he would have found that it is hatred and enmity, mostly associated with the people, chance and probability, mostly associated with the army and sublimation to rational policy/politics mostly associated with the government. This trinity can also be applied to non state actors just as much as it can to the state based system that has been, for the most part, the main paradigm since the treaty of Westphalia. Overall a good but flawed analysis of modern conflict.