
New Books in Genocide Studies
Hosted by Host and Miranda Melcher · Marshall Poe
4.4from 48 ratings
- 633
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 48
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
About New Books in Genocide Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies
- Publisher
- Marshall Poe
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Oct 2008
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 633 episodes have a transcript.

18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)

5 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)

18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So my riddle was to decipher this precise combination of continuity and change in Japanese military culture. And to examine the continuity, I went to the earlier period. So now to answer your question. I think that every human culture, when you go to war, encounters the question, whom is it legitimate to kill in situations of war? And contrary to what modern people imagine, that, you know, before the modern era, just there were no rules and everybody did what they wanted in war, it's not the case. When human cultures encounter the question, whom is it legitimate to kill in war? The answer is almost never everyone always. […]
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- Deborah Mayersen
- Delia Duong Ba Wendel
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