• Introduction


• 1: Civilian Immunity and the Politics of Legitimacy


• 2: State Terror in the Long-Nineteenth Century


• 3: Totalitarian Mass Killing


• 4: Terror Bombing in the Second World War


• 5: The Cold War Struggle (1): Capitalist Atrocities


• 6: The Cold War Struggle (2): Communist Atrocities


• 7: Atrocities and the 'Golden Age' of Humanitarianism


• 8: Radical Islamism and the War on Terror


• Conclusion

Alex J. Bellamy he served as Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect from 2007-2010, and before that as Professor of International Relations at The University of Queensland. Before moving to Australia, he taught Defence Studies for King's College London at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Starting with the French Revolution Massacres and Morality studies mass killing as perpetrated by states. In particular it examines the role that civilian immunity has played in shaping the behaviour of perpetrators and how international society has responded.