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The Dark Side of Democracy
This book presents a new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most ter-
rible cases – colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia,
Yugoslavia, and Rwanda – and cases of lesser violence – early modern Europe,
contemporary India, and Indonesia. Murderous cleansing is modern – it is “the
dark side of democracy.” It results where the
demos
(democracy) is confused
with the
ethnos
(the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethnonational
movements each claims “its own” state over the same territory. Conflict esca-
lates where either the weaker side fights rather than submit because of aid from
outside or the stronger side believes it can deploy sudden, overwhelming force.
But the state must also be factionalized and radicalized by external pressures
like wars. Premeditation is rare, since perpetrators feel “forced” into escalation
when their milder plans are frustrated. Escalation is not simply the work of
“evil elites” or “primitive peoples.” It results from complex interactions among
leaders, militants, and “core constituencies” of ethnonationalism. Understand-
ing this complex process helps us devise policies to avoid ethnic cleansing in the
future.
Michael Mann is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los
Angeles. He is author of
The Sources of Social Power
(Cambridge, 1986, 1993)
and
Fascists
(Cambridge, 2004).
The Dark Side of Democracy
Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
MICHAEL MANN
University of California, Los Angeles
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