The dark side of nation-states: ethnic cleansing in modern Europe

Chapter 1. Preconditions of ethnic cleansing

The ideology of modern nationalism

The nation-state in theory and practice

"Minority problems"

European modernity

Christian intolerance

Chapter 2. Ethnic cleansing as an instrument of international politics: 1912-25

The Balkan Wars and their consequences

Deportations in World War I

Postwar migrations

Triage in Alsace

The protection and reduction of minorities in the Paris Peace Treaties

The Treaty of Lausanne

Chapter 3. Total war and total cleansing: 1938-44

From the Munich Agreement to World War II

Heim ins Reich

Under Nazi occupation

More cases in Germany's sphere of influence

Soviet ethnic cleansing

Wars within the war : the Ukrainian-Polish and the Serbo-Croatian Conflicts

Ethnic cleansing of Jews

Chapter 4. The big sweep: postwar Europe and beyond 1944-48

Another escalation: the Allied plans 1943-45

The westward sweep of Poles

De-Germanizing Poland and Czechoslovakia

Homogenizing postwar Poland

Back to interwar models: Hungarians outside Hungary

Resettling the Polish and Czech borderlands

Soviet restraint and retribution

At the fault lines of the Cold War

On the British track: India and Palestine

Chapter 5. Ghosts of the past: the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus: 1991-99

The breakup of Yugoslavia

Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kosovo

Conflicts in the Caucasus compared

Conclusion and historical typology

The four phases of ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing during wars and after wars

Forms of violence

Unregulated and contractual ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing and genocide

Retrospective and forward-looking ethnic cleansing

The "British track"

Lessons learnt?

Annotated bibliography

Comprehensive histories of ethnic cleansing

Literature on the resettlement of ethnically cleansed regions

Literature on remembrance and collective memory

Literature on individual countries.