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#760 Jonathan Maynard - Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides

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The Role of Ideology in Mass Killings

Few scholars suggest that ideology is completely irrelevant in mass killings, says Peter Bergen. "Rationalist explanations tend to present mass killings and indeed other forms of violence as kind of fairly brutal," he says. The situationists draw much more on research from social psychology about why people do things they don't support or think are the right things to do.

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