Systematization of Hatred: Dangers of Escalation and Genocidal Violence in Habsburg Warfare, 1914–1918

If the myth that the development of civilization is governed by a fixed process has long been deconstructed, and if our knowledge of tendencies in ancient times toward the total annihilation of enemy collectives has grown recently, it should nevertheless be stressed again that war and warfare did follow specific rules in both modern and pre-modern times. And although a more precise regulation of the law of war and international law has been achieved, particularly within the last two centuries, it is also the case that what Jörg Baberowski attempted to capture with his concept of ‘spaces of violence’ continues