Ethnic Cleansing: A Social and Legal Examination

Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities – especially ethnic and racial minorities – are treated by the majority, Larry May’s Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multicultural states.

In order to determine what constitutes the crime of ethnic cleansing, this book details crucial conceptual issues around the topic, such as wha...