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Why not kill them all?: the logic and prevention of mass political murder by Chirot, Daniel, Mccauley, Clark

“…Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our…”
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Elections in Hard Times: Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century . By Thomas Edward Flores and Irfan Nooruddin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xix+277. $89.99 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) by Chirot, Daniel

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The Long Struggle: Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the Importance of Ideas in Democratization by Chirot, Daniel

“…The parts of Asia we are looking at have more than half of the world's population, but the issue of how democratization occurs and why is even bigger than just…”
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Legacies, Memories, and Consequences of European Communism's Collapse by Chirot, Daniel

“…Chirot reviews Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe edited by Mark R. Beissinger and Stephen Kotkin; Twenty Years After Communism: The…”
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Problematic Analogies and Forgotten Details of 1989 by Chirot, Daniel

“…We are happy that communism ended mostly peacefully in East-Central Europe in 1989. That civil society channeled peaceful dissent in the northern part of this…”
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Looking into the Abyss by Chirot, Daniel

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Looking into the Abyss / Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Chirot, Daniel

“…A review essay on the book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (Basic Books, 2010) is presented…”
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Por qué la sociología y la historia rumana son importantes hoy by Chirot, Daniel

“…Discurso de investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa de Daniel Chirot, 10 de octubre de 2019, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, Bucarest…”
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Peines de guerre: La justice pénale internationale et l'ex-Yougoslavie [Pains of War: International Penal Justice and the Former Yougoslavia]. Edited by Isabelle Delpla and Magali Bessone. Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2010. 317p. € 22.00. - Prosecuting Heads of State. Edited by Ellen L. Lutz and Caitlin Reiger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 352p. $95.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. - Making Sense of Mass Atrocity. By Mark Osiel. New York: Cambridge Uni by Chirot, Daniel

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Legacies, Memories, and Consequences of European Communism’s Collapse by Chirot, Daniel

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Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi-Allied Romania . By Vladimir Solonari.Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xxxii+451. $65.00 by Chirot, Daniel

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Searching for a Mythical Wholeness but Never Finding It by Chirot, Daniel

“…After a couple of centuries of bemoaning the problems of what modernization has wrought, it is time to reconsider what we mean by the human need for communal…”
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Identity Construction and the Causes of Genocidal Mass Murder by Chirot, Daniel, Karell, Daniel

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The Politics of Small Things: Power of the Powerless in Dark Times . By Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi+162. $29.00 by Chirot, Daniel

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What Is Genocide? By Martin Shaw. Cambridge: Polity, 2007. 232p. $69.96 by Chirot, Daniel

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Is a Rational Solution Possible? by Chirot, Daniel

“…The debate about immigration reform, like many other critical ones in America today, cannot be resolved just by providing common sense suggestions for…”
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The Debacle in Cote d'Ivoire by Chirot, Daniel

“…Though the period after independence was prosperous in Côte d'Ivoire, economic stagnation started in the 1980s and has continued. Growing population pressure,…”
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Returning to a Sane Foreign Policy by Chirot, Daniel

“…The next president of the USA will surely correct some of the Bush administration’s most egregious policy errors, particularly its gross insensitivity to the…”
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That Enlightenment Question Again by Chirot, Daniel

“…Sandall’s complaint that the Enlightenment is in danger is not new as it repeats a long standing complaint about “the betrayal of the intellectuals”. But the…”
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Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post‐Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Mark R.  Beissinger and Crawford  Young. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. Pp. xv+514. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) by Chirot, Daniel

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