In 1996, Gregory H. Stanton, a law professor, former Fulbright scholar, and employee of the United States Department of State, presented a briefing paper in which he promulgated his theory of genocide, which encompassed eight stages. Regarding the eighth stage, Stanton wrote that “every genocide is followed by denial,” and its characteristics range from getting …
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Ottoman Entry Into WWI
I’ve begun my next course, this one on World War I. Only five discussion posts in this class, but a longer research agenda is coming soon. ==== Of the countries participating in World War I, perhaps no country was undergoing quite as extensive a shift in national identity at the time as the Ottoman Empire. …
On Atrocities
Armesto-Fernandez refers to the 20th century as a “century of atrocities” for quite literal reasons, with the author tying the term directly to the two major world wars fought over the course of the century. Certainly, if we examine the century chronologically, we can see that there was an uncommon amount and level of violence …
Inevitable Historicity 