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THE KILLING TRAP

The Killing Trap

offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politi-

cides, and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated

to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand

both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction

that such comparative analysis may contribute to prevention of genocide

in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socioeconomic circumstances

and international contexts, and includes in his analysis the Jews of

Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black

Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conﬂict

in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a frame-

work that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a

critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a

prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magni-

tude of genocide.

is the Moses and Annuta Back Professor of

International Peace and Conﬂict Resolution at Rutgers University,

New Brunswick, NJ. He has authored or edited eleven books and sixty-

ﬁve articles and book chapters. Most recently he has published

The

Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in

Comparative Perspective

and the edited volumes

Inequality, Democracy,

and Economic Development

(Cambridge), and the

Handbook of War

Studies II.

MANUS I

MIDLARSKY

THE KILLING TRAP

Genocide in the Twentieth Century

MANUS I. MIDLARSKY