This wonderful book, shows that the definitions are important in explaining the genocide; Where it provides a high intellectual point of view, and if you want to read a comprehensive and easy to absorb work for genocide and ethnic cleansing, this book should be your first choice. Michael Man, University of California, Los Angeles. It is an indispensable book for teaching and thinking also on the subject of genocide that causes a problem. Dirk Mozus, European University Institute. This book draws a way to a road through the intellectual link that surrounds the concept of genocide, and in a comprehensive narration of the history of the idea, the author discusses its roots, development and relationships with concepts such as: ethnic cleansing and political extermination; By presenting a fundamental criticism of the existing writings on this topic, he sees that what distinguishes collective genocide from the most legitimate ordinary war is that the target (enemies) are groups and individuals with a civilian nature, and explains his argument with vitality through a wide range of historical examples (from the Jewish Holocaust to Rwanda, Palestine and Yugoslavia ) And it shows how the question: What is the genocide? Politically important where the population is threatened with violence. The subject of this interesting book will remain the subject of attention and active controversy, and will be liked for students and thinkers through international social and legal sciences. Obeikan Publishing