The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe

H. Zeynep Bulutgil is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2009. Her research on ethnic cleansing has been supported by fellowships from the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, New Jersey, and the National Science Foundation.

• Introduction; 1. Theory; 2. Empirical implications I: cross-national test; 3. Empirical implications II: historical cases; 4. Empirical implications III: Bosnia-Herzegovina; 5. Negative and atypical cases in Europe; 6. Theoretical and empirical extensions - relative absence of ethnic cleansing in Africa; 7. Conclusion.

'The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe is an innovative contribution to the systematic study of mass violence. Using a variety of quantitative data, case studies from multiple world regions, and original theory, the book asks and answers a big question. As one of the only dedicated social scientific studies of ethnic cleansing, this book is a landmark that will command attention from scholars for years to come.' Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin, Madison