Ugur Umit Ungor, “Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences” (Amsterdam University Press, 2016)

I remember working on my master’s thesis while at Ohio State. Hour after hour after hour I labored-writing, rewriting, formatting. Then the day of the defense arrived. Ninety minutes later, I exited the room with my degree assured. And no one ever looked at the master’s thesis again.

I suspect this is true with most theses. For some this is clearly justified. But many others, while not of the depth and scale of a dissertation, represent a great deal of original thought and analysis.

Ugur Umit Ungor’s collection of essays titled Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), offers a number of examples of this. The book is composed of essays that present the original ideas and conclusions of a number of the best students at NIOD. The collection is wide-ranging–representing a variety of disciplines and time periods. Ungor divides them broadly into three different areas–the causes, courses and consequences noted in the title. Almost any reader will find something in the book to interest and enlighten them. It’s a laudable project, one that I’m sure many people will read and remember.

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