Ultimate Choice
Malcolm Bull: Thoughts of Genocide, 9 February 2006
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
by Michael Mann.
Cambridge, 580 pp., £17.99, January 2005,0 521 53854 8 Show More
by Michael Mann.
Cambridge, 580 pp., £17.99, January 2005,
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. Vol. I: The Meaning of Genocide
by Mark Levene.
Tauris, 266 pp., £24.50, August 2005,1 85043 752 1 Show More
by Mark Levene.
Tauris, 266 pp., £24.50, August 2005,
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Vol. II: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide
by Mark Levene.
Tauris, 463 pp., £29.50, August 2005,1 84511 057 9 Show More
by Mark Levene.
Tauris, 463 pp., £29.50, August 2005,
“... of entire social groups that happen to get in the way. And then there is what Michael Walzer and John Rawls both call a ‘supreme emergency’, when direct attacks on civilian targets are required in circumstances of dire military necessity. Since, in the nuclear age, ‘supreme emergency has become a permanent condition,’ this means that it is legitimate ... ”