Ideology and Mass Killing

Ideology and Mass Killing offers the first dedicated study of the role of radical ideologies in different kinds of 'mass killing', such as genocides, large-scale war crimes, and campaigns of state terror.

Jonathan Leader Maynard is a Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2014, where he was also the Rank-Manning Junior Research Fellow and then Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at New College between 2013 and 2020. He has published in leading international journals including the Journal of Peace Research, Ethics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

1: Introduction
2: Clarifying Ideology
3: How Does Ideology Explain Mass Killing?
4: The Hardline Justification of Mass Killing
5: Stalinist Repression
6: Allied Area Bombing in World War II
7: Mass Killing in Guatemala's Civil War
8: The Rwandan Genocide
9: Conclusion