New Books In Genocide Studies

How do you write a textbook about genocide?Consider what such a textbook must do.  It needs to integrate insights from a variety of disciplines. It must make complicated legal and definitional issues clear and compelling. It needs to make historical accounts meaningful yet concise.  It needs to consider the question of what the field is for and whether a call to action is appropriate in a text.  And it must do all this while remaining sensitive to the emotionally challenging nature of the material.  How, as I put it in the introduction to my own course, do you maintain your passion for the subject in the face of such pain?This week I've asked Adam Jones and John Cox to join me in talking about these challenges. Each has written an outstanding text on the subject.  Jones' book, simply titled Genocide:  A Comprehensive Introduction, 3rd Edition (Routledge, 2018) is already a standard in the field. Jones provides us with as comprehensive a survey as we're likely to get, combining hi