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...explain the causes or "etiology" of genocide, including the magnitude of victimization. His mostly structural explanation stresses the impact of security policy and security crises on the decision by elites to commit genocide against specific groups. Preferring the language of probability rather than necessity and sufficiency, and drawing on prospect theory, Midlarsky argues that genocide is more likely to occur when state responds to the experience of a loss, especially of territory, in a particular way. Genocidal situations occur when elites engage in "loss compensation" by pursuing risky, "imprudent" policies or "brute force realpolitik" (P. 93), typically in the form of external wars or...
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