Dirk Moses
@dirkmoses.bsky.social
Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
A theory of permanent security by AI Trainin in 1943
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A theory of permanent security by AI Trainin in 1943
Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
October 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
1931: on the morality and efficacy of bombing women and children scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Open rank position in politics at the City College of New York. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Open rank position in politics at the City College of New York. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
I discuss the genocide concept in my bad German here. Recorded in one take so I could not clean it up. FWIW www.deutschlandfunk.de/genozid-in-g...
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I discuss the genocide concept in my bad German here. Recorded in one take so I could not clean it up. FWIW www.deutschlandfunk.de/genozid-in-g...
‚we suggest that the qualification as genocide expresses a profound loss & longing for justice that is not only…insufficiently captured by individual human rights, crimes v humanity, or war crimes. We use the term “the common” as a concept to denote this loss.‘ voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...
September 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‚we suggest that the qualification as genocide expresses a profound loss & longing for justice that is not only…insufficiently captured by individual human rights, crimes v humanity, or war crimes. We use the term “the common” as a concept to denote this loss.‘ voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The sadism is deeply buried & often surfaces-as you know. Consider the beloved Max & Moritz series. Jewish emigre scholars like Norbert Elias could see it for obvious reasons, esp with they ended up in the Anglosphere & experienced culture of restraint in all classes. Compare the queuing cultures 1/
September 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The sadism is deeply buried & often surfaces-as you know. Consider the beloved Max & Moritz series. Jewish emigre scholars like Norbert Elias could see it for obvious reasons, esp with they ended up in the Anglosphere & experienced culture of restraint in all classes. Compare the queuing cultures 1/
The @journalgenocide.bsky.social has a new Roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies. My introduction is freely available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The @journalgenocide.bsky.social has a new Roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies. My introduction is freely available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Teaching this brilliant book that is inadvertently about the origin of genocide press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Teaching this brilliant book that is inadvertently about the origin of genocide press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The debate about Israeli genocide in Gaza turns in large measure on the genocide-Holocaust relationship. I try to tease them out in this chapter in Cambridge History of the Holocaust cambridge.org/core/books/abs… Here are the first two pages.
September 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The debate about Israeli genocide in Gaza turns in large measure on the genocide-Holocaust relationship. I try to tease them out in this chapter in Cambridge History of the Holocaust cambridge.org/core/books/abs… Here are the first two pages.
Saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Lifton at 99. He kindly subjected himself to my email inquiries while I was working on his papers at the NY Public Library for my book, The Problems of Genocide. He features as the one who got it right, rather than Lemkin & Genocide Studies
September 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Lifton at 99. He kindly subjected himself to my email inquiries while I was working on his papers at the NY Public Library for my book, The Problems of Genocide. He features as the one who got it right, rather than Lemkin & Genocide Studies
September 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ronen, why are you citing Arendt and not Lemkin who wrote like his in 1944. Moreover, the law talks about „in whole or in part.“
September 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Ronen, why are you citing Arendt and not Lemkin who wrote like his in 1944. Moreover, the law talks about „in whole or in part.“
An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
September 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Global War on Terror & Omer Bartov in 2006. The "teeming multitudes" and the "surging masses" of the global South, "banging on the closing gates of the West," with their "fundamentalist extremist ideologies poisoning the minds of millions upon millions." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Global War on Terror & Omer Bartov in 2006. The "teeming multitudes" and the "surging masses" of the global South, "banging on the closing gates of the West," with their "fundamentalist extremist ideologies poisoning the minds of millions upon millions." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Every now and then I post quotes from Raphael Lemkin. Today's is this from _Axis Rule in Occupied Europe_.
August 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Every now and then I post quotes from Raphael Lemkin. Today's is this from _Axis Rule in Occupied Europe_.
We (Simon Maghakyan/Oxford and Laurajane Smith/ANU) are looking for papers for an Oxford Handbook of Heritage and Security. Please attached CFP for details.
August 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We (Simon Maghakyan/Oxford and Laurajane Smith/ANU) are looking for papers for an Oxford Handbook of Heritage and Security. Please attached CFP for details.
It relates to this important book which I discuss in The Problems of Genocide www.abebooks.com/first-editio...
July 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It relates to this important book which I discuss in The Problems of Genocide www.abebooks.com/first-editio...
Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.
July 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.
I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We are speaking about the future of German memory culture tonight in Frankfurt www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
July 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We are speaking about the future of German memory culture tonight in Frankfurt www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
The Journal of Genocide has published a special issue on “Navigating Post-Genocide Social Relations: Memory, Power and Legacy in Rwanda” edited by Christopher P. Davey & Nicole Fox www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgr20/2...
June 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Journal of Genocide has published a special issue on “Navigating Post-Genocide Social Relations: Memory, Power and Legacy in Rwanda” edited by Christopher P. Davey & Nicole Fox www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgr20/2...
I explain here how genocide in law was distinguished from genocidal warfare so that states could more easily engage in the latter. Thanks to my Oslo hosts for the invitation and opportunity
June 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I explain here how genocide in law was distinguished from genocidal warfare so that states could more easily engage in the latter. Thanks to my Oslo hosts for the invitation and opportunity