TY - BOOK ID - 78640674 TI - The Dark Side of Nation-States PY - 2014 SN - 1782383034 9781782383031 9781782383024 1782383026 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Genocide KW - Nationalism KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Ethnocide KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Crime KW - History KW - Europe KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Ethnic relations KW - Politics and government KW - History, Military KW - Génocide KW - Nationalisme KW - Histoire KW - Relations interethniques KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Histoire militaire KW - לאומיות KW - القوميّة KW - השמדת עם KW - היסטוריה KW - التاريخ KW - אירופה KW - أوروبّا KW - יחסים אתניים KW - العلاقات الأثنية KW - היסטוריה צבאית KW - التاريخ العسكري KW - פוליטיקה וממשל KW - السياسة والحكم KW - 1900-1999 KW - أوروبا KW - القومية KW - Politics and goverment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640674 AB - Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely organized and carried out in cold blood, with revenge, hatred and other strong emotions playing only a minor role. This book not only considers the majority of population removals which occurred in Eastern Europe, but i ER -