Strategic Genocide
Date
2014-07-02Author
Gangopadhyay, Partha
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune (India)
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We examine the strategic foundation to the systematic assault on human rights, like genocide, when different social groups spend financial and real resources to influence a state executive’s policy and use genocides instrumentally. In the existing work, as opposed to ours, the executive seeks support from homogeneous groups (selectorates) to retain political power and undertakes genocides to maximize tax revenues ...