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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Humanitarian Intervention by the Powers: A Historical Perspective -- Islamic Sacred Law as a Matrix of Ottoman Legal Order and Nationality Conflicts -- Humanitarian Intervention as a Response to Nationality Conflicts in the Balkans -- Escalation of the Conflicts and Ottoman Palliatives. The Origins of the Eastern Question Foreshadowing the Armenian Question -- The Origins of the Armenian Question and the Turko-Armenian Conflict -- The Ill-Fated Internationalization of a Domestic Nationality Conflict -- The Interactive Dynamics of the Eastern and Armenian Questions -- The Dysfunctions of Humanitarian Intervention in the Rise and Treatment of the Armenian Question -- Manipulative Diplomacy Supplanting the Ideals of Humanitarian Intervention -- The Impotence of Discordant Diplomacy: The Disconnective Vulnerabilities of the Armenians -- The Inauguration of a Proto-Genocidal Policy -- The Era of the Abdul Hamit Massacres -- The Portentousness of the Abdul Hamit Era Massacres -- The Wars and Massacres of the New Young Turk Regime and the Demise of Humanitarian Interventionism -- The 1909 Twin Adana Massacres etc.

Dadrian, a former professor at SUNY, Geneseo, currently directs a genocide study project supported by the Guggenheim Foundation. The present study analyzes the devastating wartime destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire as the cataclysmic culmination of a historical process invo