The Political Science of Genocide: Outlines of an Emerging Research Agenda
@article{Verdeja2012ThePS, title={The Political Science of Genocide: Outlines of an Emerging Research Agenda}, author={Ernesto Verdeja}, journal={Perspectives on Politics}, year={2012}, volume={10}, pages={307 - 321} }
Over the past two decades, scholars have generated a large and sophisticated literature on genocide. Nevertheless, there are still several research areas that require further work. This article outlines a research agenda that analyzes the conditions under which genocide is likely to occur, the multilevel processes of violent escalation and de-escalation, and the ways in which these processes are shaped by, connect to, reinforce, accelerate and impede one another. I argue that scholars should 1…
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