A Modern History of Forgotten Genocides and Mass Atrocities

Jeffrey S. Bachman is Associate Professor at the American University School of International Service, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (2022) and The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship (2017), and editor of Genocide Studies: Pathways Ahead (2024) and Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (2019). Esther Brito Ruiz is a PhD student at American University, specializing in mass violence and gender. She is a contributor to edited volumes, including Genocide Studies: Pathways Ahead (2024), and author of academic articles, including “Do No Harm: The Role of Humanitarian Aid and Neutrality in Protracting Civil Wars” (2023) and “The Geopolitics of Human Suffering: A Comparative Study of Media Coverage of the Conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine” (2023).

Part 1: Genocide and Imperialism Introduction 1.The Genocidal French Conquest of Algeria, 1830-1847 2. Assimilation and Dispossession: Cultural Genocide of the Ainu 3. The First Genocide of the 20th Century Part 2: War and Genocide Introduction 4. Biafra and the Politics of Naming Genocide 5. The Yezidi Genocide: An Evolution of Harm 6. A Hierarchy of Political Violence: Yemen and the Question of Genocide Part 3: State Repression, Military Dictatorships, and Genocide Introduction 7. The Role of the 1972 Genocide in Burundi and Its Ramification in the Great Lake Region 8. Genocide in Argentina: Social, Political and Legal Struggles to Frame State Crimes During the Last Military Dictatorship 9. Politics, Class, and Genocide: El Salvador and Colombia in Hemispheric Context Part 4: Human-Caused Famine, Attrition, and Genocide Introduction 10. Starvation, Dehumanization, and Genocide: Moscow’s Imperialism and the Ukrainian Holodomor, 1932-1933 11. Framing Famine British Colonialism and Bengal 12. China's Great Famine 13. Genocide by Attrition of the Nuba Mountains People (1989-mid 1990s)