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Weitz, Eric D. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Abstract: University of Minnesota history professor Weitz offers a sobering comparative study of four of the past century’s genocidal regimes: Stalin’s Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under Pol Pot and Bosnia in the 1990s. (While acknowledging that the Holocaust was unprecedented, Weitz explicitly rejects the notion that it was “unique” and incomparable to other genocides.) Weitz begins with a tightly argued account of how Enlightenment thought, together with 19th-century romanticism’s nostalgia for an imagined and innocent past, combined to provide the intellectual underpinning for the growth of nationalism and racism, which provided the 20th-century engine for state-organized genocide. Weitz then explores the historical precedents in each country, providing context for a comparison of how each government accomplished its horrific goals. There is much new in Weitz’s analysis and his isolation of the common mechanisms of state-sponsored genocide is an invaluable contribution to the literature on the subject, such as his discussion of the prevalence of one-on-one brutality in the cases of Serbian, Nazi and Cambodian atrocities. The descriptions of the mechanisms for the purges, specifically how each government made large sections of their population complicit in the crimes, is chilling. Despite its analytical and reasoned approach, this work cannot be read without feeling outrage, despair and horror. Weitz’s work raises profound questions about the human capacity for violence.

United Nations General Assembly 63rd Session Agenda Item 64(b). Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: Human Rights Questions, Including Alternative Approaches for Improving the Effective Enjoyment of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 2009.

Abstract: This is a report on the general resolution on “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”. The Permanent Missions wish to place on record that they are in persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the application of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention to existing stipulations under international law

Albright, Madeleine K and Cohen, William S. Preventing Genocide a Blueprint for US Policy Makers. United States: Genocide Prevention Task Force, 2008.

Abstract: This report includes five distinct domains in order guide US policy makers to prevent genocide. Those are early warning, early prevention, preventive diplomacy, employing military options and international action.

This report is a joint publication by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The American Academy of Diplomacy and the Endowment of the United States Institute of Peace.

Smith, Louis J., and Edward C. Keefer, eds. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971. Washington: Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian, 2005.

Abstract: Part of a sub-series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of Richard M. Nixon. This volume documents the response of the United States to the crisis that developed in South Asia in 1971. The scope of this volume is limited to the political crisis that began in Pakistan in March 1971 with the government’s efforts to suppress Bengali demands for virtual autonomy in East Pakistan and concluded with the establishment of the state of Bangladesh at the end of the year.