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Product Description: The creation of oil "rents" in the 1970s put Algeria, Iraq, and Libya on the fast track to modernization. Massive revenues turned Algeria into the "Mediterranean dragon," Libya into an "emirate," and Iraq into the preeminent "rising military power" of the Arab world...read more

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9780231703024 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 30, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The creation of oil "rents" in the 1970s put Algeria, Iraq, and Libya on the fast track to modernization.
9780199327676 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 30, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: During the 1970s, owing to their oil 'rents', Algeria, Iraq and Libya all seemed engaged in a swift modernization process.

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Hardcover:

9781137006424 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 16, 2012, cover price $100.00

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By Claire Andrieu (editor), Emma Bentley (trans), Sarah Gensburger (editor), Cynthia Schoch (trans) and Jacques Semelin (editor)

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9780231701723 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 30, 2010, cover price $55.00
9780199327126 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 22, 2010, cover price $50.00
9781849040594 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $84.95 | also contains Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue

How can we comprehend the sociopolitical processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing, or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina while respecting the specificities of each appalling phenomenon. Jacques Semelin achieves this, in part, by leading his readers through the three examples simultaneously, the unraveling of which sometimes converges but most often diverges.Semelin's method is multidisciplinary, relying not only on contemporary history but also on social psychology and political science. Based on the seminal distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, both rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms "delusional rationality." He describes a dynamic structural model with, at its core, the matrix of a social imaginaire that, responding to fears, resentments, and utopias, carves and recarves the social body by eliminating "the enemy." Semelin identifies the main stages that can lead to a genocidal process and explains how ordinary people can become perpetrators. He develops an intellectual framework to analyze the entire spectrum of mass violence, including terrorism, in the twentieth century and before. Strongly critical of today's political instrumentalization of the "genocide" notion, Semelin urges genocide research to stand back from legal and normative definitions and come of age as a discipline in its own right in the social sciences.
By Stanley Hoffman (introduced by), Cynthia Schoch (trans) and Jacques Semelin

Hardcover:

9780231142823 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: How can we comprehend the sociopolitical processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing, or genocide?

Paperback:

9780231142830 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2009, cover price $29.00

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