East Asia's Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities

by Alex J. Bellamy

East Asia, until recently a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around eighty percent of the world's mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than five percent.

This book explains East Asia's 'other' miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198777930
• ISBN13: 9780198777939
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"