Adam Jones is currently Professor of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is author of Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979-1998 ( 2002), and editor of Gendercide and Genocide (forthcoming). His scholarly articles have appeared in Review of International Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of Human Rights, and other publications. He is Executive Director of Gendercide Watch (www.gendercide.org), a Web-based educational initiative.

Contents
Part I: Overview
1. Introduction: Genocide, War Crimes and the West - Adam Jones
2. Shades of Complicity: Towards a Typology of Transnational Crimes against Humanity - Peter Stoett
Part II: Genocide, War Crimes and the West
3. Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa: Genocide and the Quest for Recompense - Jan-Bart Gewald
4. Genocide by Any Other Name: North American Indian Residential Schools in Context - Ward Churchill
5. The Allies in World War Two: The Anglo-American Bombardment of German Cities - Eric Langenbacher
6. Torture and Other Violations of the Law by the French Army during the Algerian War - Raphaëlle Branche
7. Atrocity and Its Discontents: U.S. Double-Mindedness about Massacre, from the Plains Wars to Indonesia - Peter Dale Scott
8. Bob Kerrey's Atrocity, the Crime of Vietnam, and the Historic Pattern of U.S. Imperialism - S. Brian Willson
Document 1
(1) Inaugural Statement to the Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal (1966) -- Jean-Paul Sartre
9. Charles Horman et alia vs. Henry Kissinger: U.S. Intervention in 1970s Chile and the Case for Prosecutions - Mario I. Aguilar
10. The Wretched of the Nations: The West's Role in Human Rights Violations
in the Bangladesh War of Independence - Suhail Islam and Syed Hassan
11. Indicting Henry Kissinger: The Response of Raphael Lemkin - Steven L. Jacobs
12. Crimes of the West in Democratic Congo: Reflections on Belgian Acceptance of "Moral Responsibility" for the Death of Lumumba - Thomas Turner
13. In the Name of the Cold War: How the West Aided and Abetted the Barre Dictatorship of Somalia - Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
14. The Security Council: Behind the Scenes in the Rwanda Genocide - Linda R. Melvern
15. U.S. Policy and Iraq: A Case of Genocide? - Denis J. Halliday
Documents 2 & 3
(2) Criminal Complaint against the United States and Others for Crimes against the People of Iraq - Ramsey Clark
(3) Letter to the Security Council (2001) - Ramsey Clark
16. The Fire in 1999? The United States, Nato, and the Bombing of Yugoslavia - David Bruce Macdonald
17. Collateral Damage: The Human Cost of Structural Violence - Peter G. Prontzos
Part III: Truth and Restitution
18. Institutional Responses to Genocide and Mass Atrocity - Ernesto Verdeja
19. International Citizens' Tribunals on Human Rights - Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
20. Coming to Terms with the Past: The Case for a Truth and Reparations Commission on Slavery, Segregation, and Colonialism - Francis Njubi Nesbitt
Document 4
(4) Declarations on the Transatlantic Slave Trade - World Conference against Racism:
Part IV: Closing Observations
21. Afghanistan and Beyond - Adam Jones
22. Letter to America - Breyten Breytenbach
Index

Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important but under-researched dimension: the involvement of the US and other liberal democracies in actions that are conventionally depicted as the exclusive province of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
Many of the authors are eminent scholars and/or renowned activists; in most cases, their contributions are specifically written for this volume. In the opening and closing sections of the book, analytical issues are considered, including questions of responsibility for genocide and war crimes, and institutional responses at both the domestic and international levels. The central section is devoted to an unprecedentedly broad range of original case studies of western involvement, or alleged involvement, in war crimes and genocide.
At a moment in history when terrorism has become a near universal focus of public attention, this volume makes clear why the West, as a result of both its historical legacy and contemporary actions, so often excites widespread resentment and opposition throughout the rest of the world.