Author Dadrian, Vahakn N.

Title The history of the Armenian genocide : ethnic conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus / Vahakn N. Dadrian.

Pub Info New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2003.

Edition 4th rev. ed., 1st pbk. ed.

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgement
	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Humanitarian Intervention by the Powers: A Historical Perspective
1	Islamic Sacred Law as a Matrix of Ottoman Legal Order and Nationality Conflicts					3
2	Humanitarian Intervention as a Response to Nationality Conflicts in the Balkans					7
3	Escalation of the Conflicts and Ottoman Palliatives. The Origins of the Eastern Question Foreshadowing the Armenian Question					21
Pt. II	Origins of the Armenian Question and the Turko-Armenian Conflict
4	Ill-Fated Internationalization of a Domestic Nationality Conflict					43
5	Interactive Dynamics of the Eastern and Armenian Questions					49
Pt. III	Dysfunctions of Humanitarian Intervention in the Rise and Treatment of the Armenian Question
6	Manipulative Diplomacy Supplanting the Ideals of Humanitarian Intervention					61
7	Impotence of Discordant Diplomacy: The Disconnective Vulnerabilities of the Armenians					104
Pt. IV	Inauguration of a Proto-Genocidal Policy
8	Era of the Abdul Hamit Massacres					113
9	Portentousness of the Abdul Hamit Era Massacres					172
Pt. V	Wars and Massacres of the New Young Turk Regime and the Demise of Humanitarian Interventionism
10	1909 Twin Adana Massacres					179
11	Eviction of the Turks from the Balkan Peninsula: A New Sense of Peril for Anatolia					185
Pt. VI	Initiation and Consummation of the Genocide Under Cover of the First World War
12	Legal-Political Context of the Initiation					203
13	International Law as a Crucible of Legal Liabilities					212
14	Implementation of the Genocide					219
15	Disguises of the Law of Deportation and Ancillary Acts					235
16	Issue of German Complicity					248
Pt. VII	Quest for Justice in the Aftermath of Turkish Military Defeat
17	Allied Attempts at Retributive Justice					303
18	Recourse to the Machinery of Turkish Justice					317
Pt. VIII	Push Beyond Domestic Genocide. The Targeting of the Russian Armenians
19	Ittihadist Thrust Against Russian Armenia					347
20	Kemalist Thrust Against Russian Armenia					356
Pt. IX	Review of the Armenian Genocide in a Comparative Perspective
21	Saliency of Some of the Determinants of the Armenian Genocide					377
22	Parallel Problems in the Post-War Prosecution of World War I German War Criminals					390
23	Armenian Genocide in Relation to the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials					394
	Conclusion					420
	Epilogue					424
	Bibliography					426
	Subject Index					455
	Names Index					458