Genocide and the Europeans

Karen E. Smith is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively about the European Union's foreign relations, including the role that human rights may play in those relations, and was the winner of the 2007 Anna Lindh Award for excellence in research on European foreign and security policy. Her most recent books include European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World (2nd edition, 2008) and The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms (with Katie Verlin Laatikainen, 2006).

• 1. The norms against genocide; 2. European governments and the development of the international legal framework on genocide; 3. European discourses on genocide during the Cold War; 4. Bosnia and Herzegovina; 5. Rwanda; 6. Kosovo; 7. Darfur; 8. Is there a European way of responding to genocide?

'Karen Smith has never ducked the big and difficult questions about European foreign policy, and in this important new study she tackles one of the most challenging of all - how to respond to the possibility of a genocide occurring in other countries. Her analysis is original, empirically rich, and morally sobering. It is the most substantial contribution to the literature on European international relations of recent years.' Christopher Hill, University of Cambridge