The Problems of Genocide

A. Dirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor in Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor of Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics (2020) and The Holocaust in Greece (2018).

• Introduction: The Problems of Genocide; Part I. The Language of Transgression: 1. The Language of Transgression, 1500s to 1890s; 2. The Language of Transgression, 1890s to 1930s; 3. Raphael Lemkin and the Protection of Small Nations; 4. The Many Types of Destruction; 5. Inventing Genocide in the 1940s; Part II. Permanent Security: 6. Permanent Security in History: Empire and Settler Colonialism; 7. The Nazi Empire as Illiberal Permanent Security; 8. Human Rights, Population 'Transfer', and the Foundation of the Postwar Order; 9. Imagining Nation-Security in South Asia and Palestine: Partition, Population Exchange, and Communal Hostages; Part III. The Language of Transgression, Permanent Security, and Holocaust Memory: 10. Lemkin, Arendt, Vietnam, and Liberal Permanent Security; 11. Genocide Studies and the Repression of the Political; 12. Holocaust Memory, Exemplary Victims, and Permanent Security Today.

'This refreshingly original book turns the problem of genocide on its head. Contrariwise to international law and the dominant memory regimes, Moses points at the aspiration for permanent security as the crux of the matter. Passionate and historically sweeping.' Maria Mälksoo, author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries