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Ethnic cleansing : theoretical issues and concerns and new interpretation -- Historical background : evolution of Serb politics--from the state of Serbia to the single Serb state -- The frame for the picture of ethnic cleansing : common agenda, state and policy -- Ethnic cleansing : practice and its constitutive elements -- Murder as part of ethnic cleansing--attack on co-existence, past and future -- Detention camps and practices in the camps : moral attack on the victims -- Concealment and destruction of evidence : destroying the past -- Bringing ethnic cleansing home : crisis staff--key agent of destruction -- Ordinary Serbs' complicity in ethnic cleansing : no ordinary crime -- Ethnic cleansing in retrospect and some conclusions

In a speech made on 3 July 2009 to the 'Marxism 2009' conference in London, the author examines the roots and development of ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka from British colonial rule to the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009. Sri Lanka today is at the cross-roads between parliamentary dictatorship and fascism.

This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of ethnic cleansing are, first and foremost, a criminal issue and must therefore be precisely placed within the context of the international law order. In particular, it addresses the question of the specificity of the act and its relation to existing categories of international crime, exploring the relationship between ethnic cleansing and genocide, but also extending to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The book goes on to show how the current understanding of ethnic cleansing singularly fails to provide an efficient instrument for identification, and argues that the act, in having its own distinctive characteristics, conditions and exigencies, ought to be granted its own classification as a specific independent crime. Clotilde Pegorier is a Research Fellow in European, International and Public Law at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Publisher's note.

"Cultural Homogenization, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Geographies of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and War Crimes" published on by Oxford University Press.

Ethnic cleansing and return as geopolitics -- Yugoslavia's violent dissolution -- A distinctive geopolitical space -- Polarization and poison -- Ethnic cleansing -- Persistence ambivalence -- Early battles over returns -- Building capacity -- Rule of law -- Localized geopolitical struggles -- Did ethnic cleaning succeed? -- List of interviews