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About Jeff Bachman
Jeff Bachman is an associate professor at American University’s School of International Service. He is the author of The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship (Routledge, 2017). He is also the editor of Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (Routledge, 2019) and the forthcoming volume Genocide: The Path Ahead. His research has also been published in Third World Quarterly, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Genocide Research, and International Studies Perspectives, among others.Jeff Bachman is an associate professor at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jeff:
January 11, 2024
Phenomenal Justice
In Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Eva van Roekel grounds her research in phenomenological an…
January 9, 2024
Genocide in Libya
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929-1934…
November 20, 2023
Warnings
Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experi…
October 28, 2023
War Made Invisible
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual stat…
June 21, 2023
The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression
Giulia Pecorella's The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression (Routledge, 2021) traces the position of the United States of America on a…
April 19, 2023
Trauma and Truth
The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest…
March 29, 2023
Perpetrators
Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state a…
January 16, 2023
Invisible Atrocities
International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. Randle …
November 25, 2022
Anthropological Witness
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accuse…
November 11, 2022
Genocide
Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases…
May 23, 2022
Global Burning
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in…
December 24, 2021
The Crime of Aggression
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instea…
December 21, 2021
Sharing Responsibility
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first cen…
October 12, 2021
Denial
Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a compara…
August 26, 2021
The Crime Without a Name
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasur…
June 30, 2021
It Can Happen Here
If many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Char…
May 21, 2021
The Complexity of Evil
Why do people participate in genocide? In The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Rutgers UP, 2020), Timothy Williams presents an interdisc…
May 14, 2021
The Problems of Genocide
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian des…
February 17, 2021
Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been …
January 22, 2021
Acts of Repair
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2021) explores how ordinary people grapple with political violenc…
December 15, 2020
Unstable Ground
Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential t…
November 19, 2020
The Failures of Ethics
In the Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2018), John K. Roth concentrates on…
September 25, 2020
We Charge Genocide
In 2017, We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People, the historic petition authored by William L. Patterson, was published i…
July 16, 2020
Our History is the Future
For the second time, Nick Estes has been gracious enough to participate in a New Books Network podcast to discuss his book Our History is the Future: …