Philipp Ther holds a Chair of Central European History at the University of Vienna. Previously he was a professor of comparative European history at the EUI in Florence. He has published and edited several books on ethnic cleansing, including Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe 1944-1948 (co-edited with A. Siljak; Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). He also co-edited Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe, (Berghahn, 2007). His most recent book Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa, (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2014) [The New Order on the Old Continent. A History of Neoliberal Europe], was awarded with the non-fiction bookprize of the Leipzig bookfare and has been contracted by Princeton University Press.

Introduction

PART I: SETTING THE GROUND

Chapter 1. Preconditions of Ethnic Cleansing

PART II: PHASES AND AGENTS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING

Chapter 2. Ethnic Cleansing as an Instrument of International Politics (1912-25)
Chapter 3. Total War and Total Cleansings (1938-44)
Chapter 4. A Clean New Order in Europe (1944-50)

PART III: GHOSTS OF THE PAST

Chapter 5. The former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus (1991-99)

Conclusion and Historical Typology

Acknowledgments

Annotated Bibliography