War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
About the Book Series
This series publishes original scholarly works in English about the causes, courses, and consequences of war and mass violence from the nineteenth century until the present. Global in its geographical scope, this series provides a unique forum for monographs and edited collections exploring war, conflict, and genocide from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including history, anthropology, political science, comparative literature, gender studies, and environmental studies.
Recognizing the diverse nature, experience, and spaces of conflict, the series editors invite submissions on themes related to regular and irregular warfare and terrorism, the Holocaust and post-conflict societies and how it relates to scholarship on empire and colonialism, migration and borderlands, post-conflict societies, humanitarianism, and memory. The series also acknowledges that war, conflict, and genocide are not experienced uniformly and invites submissions from scholars whose work engages with critical perspectives related to gender and sexuality, class, indigeneity, race and ethnicity, religion, and ability.
The series especially welcomes manuscripts by early career scholars exploring less-studied cases and phenomena (preferably from the Global South) and scholars employing novel theoretical approaches to the study of war and genocide.
International Peacekeeping Training Centers: Security Assistance, Peacekeeping and Postcolonial Ethics
1st Edition
By Silvia Peirolo
July 27, 2026
This book examines the politics of international peacekeeping training centres as key sites where security is shaped, practiced, and legitimized. Focusing on two prominent institutions—the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (Ghana) and the Center of Excellence for Stability ...
Fascism, Liberalism and Europeanism in the Political Thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce
1st Edition
By Daniel Knegt
January 10, 2026
Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French ...
Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation
1st Edition
Edited
By Derk Venema
January 10, 2026
This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the...
This Cannot Happen Here: Integration and Jewish Resistance in the Netherlands, 1940-1945
1st Edition
By Ben Braber
January 10, 2026
How did the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War? In this book Ben Braber answers the question how the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German ...
Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences
1st Edition
Edited
By Ugur Üngör
January 09, 2026
The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is genocide so widespread, and so difficult to stop, across societies that differ...
Seeking Peace in the Wake of War: Europe, 1943-1947
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Peter Romijn, Sandrine Kott, Olivier Wieviorka
January 09, 2026
When the Second World War ended, Europe was in ruins. Yet, politically and socially, the years between 1943 and 1947 were a time of dramatic reconfigurations, which proved to be foundational for the making of today's Europe. This volume hones in on the crucial period from the beginning of the end ...
German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities: The Contested Air War
1st Edition
By Bas Von Benda-Beckmann
December 01, 2025
Today, strategic aerial bombardments of urban areas that harm civilians, at times intentionally, are becoming increasingly common in global conflicts. This book reveals the history of these tactics as employed by nations that initiated aerial bombardments of civilians after World War I and during ...
Hunt for Nazis: South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes
1st Edition
By Daniel Stahl
December 01, 2025
Hunt for Nazis is the first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice. The author shows that the Nazi hunt -- which resulted in spectacular cases like the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann -- should not only be understood as ...
The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew': Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Evelien Gans, Remco Ensel
March 07, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the ...
Caught in the Middle: Neutrals, Neutrality and the First World War
1st Edition
By Johan den Hertog, Samuel Kruizinga
March 04, 2011
During the First World War, belligerents infringed on the rights and duties of neutrals, as these had been codified in international agreements. Both the Allies and the Central Powers pressured the neutrals to modify their policies to favour them over their adversaries. During the four-and-a-half ...