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A Framework for Perpetrator Behavior: Role Theory, Foreign Policy, and the Case of the Khmer Rouge
A Framework for Perpetrator Behavior: Role Theory, Foreign Policy, and the Case of the Khmer Rouge

Author(s): Joann DiGeorgio-Lutz
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, Comparative politics
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: Cambodian genocide; constructivism; foreign policy; genocide; role theory;

Summary/Abstract: The research proposes a conceptual framework for understanding perpetrator behavior utilizing role theory through the lens of a foreign policy approach. Frameworks that examine elite genocidal perpetrator behavior rarely give enough consideration to the influence of foreign policy as a source of state-sponsored genocidal policies. This research proposes a model for examining elite perpetrator behavior marrying role theory and foreign policy as a source of genocidal perpetrator behavior. Using Cambodia as a case study, this research proposes a model for further examination both in the Cambodian context and across a number of other cases.

  • Issue Year: 7/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-35
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English