Raphael Lemkin, culture, and the concept of genocide / 'Ethnic cleaning' versus genocide? / Gender and genocide / The state and genocide / Genocide and memory / The law and genocide / Sociology and genocide / Political science and genocide / Anthropology and genocide / Social psychology and genocide / Philosophy and genocide / Genocide in the ancient world / Early Medieval Europe : the case of Britain and Ireland / Central and late Medieval Europe / Colonial Latin America / Rethinking genocide in North America / Genocide and mass violence in the 'Heart of darkness' : Africa in the colonial period / Genocide at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Mass deportations, ethnic cleansing, and genocidal politics in the later Russian empire and the USSR / The Nazi empire / Twentieth-century China : ethnic assimilation and intergroup violence / Political genocides in postcolonial Asia / State-sponsored violence and secessionist rebellions in Asia / National security doctrine in Latin America : the genocide question / Genocide and population displacement in post-communist Eastern Europe / Genocidal warfare in North-East Africa / War and genocide in Africa's Great Lakes since independence / The United Nations, the Cold War, and its legacy / Military intervention / Punishment as prevention? The politics of prosecuting génocidaires / From past to future : prospects for genocide and its avoidance in the twenty-first century