Testing Theories Brutally: Armenia (1915), Bosnia (1992) and Rwanda (1994)

Abstract

Genocide, said my caller from Zagreb, has become the most successful crime of the twentieth century. Unlike an occupation or colonial enterprise, its results cannot be undone. Each new genocide can be understood as an act by the perpetrators testing their understanding of the preconditions; testing their calculus of costs and opportunity; testing their anticipation that it will not be deterred and will work.