This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group’s historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries. A unique approach, an analysis of archival documents, including minutes of Turkish meetings, provides a window into the inner workings and decision-making of the leaders. Their persuasive propaganda campaign is demystified by applying contemporary social psychological research to identify and explain their use of psychological mechanisms to weaponize intergroup prejudice and exclusionary ideology. Social antagonistic traits of the leader's ideology, dark personality traits, and propensity for moral disengagement are readily apparent in their highly effective propaganda campaign to gain the necessary support from their party and Turkish civilians for their genocidal agenda.
The Psychology of the Armenian Genocide will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in better understanding how a nation of people can be manipulated to support the annihilation of subordinate groups. It will also appeal to a much wider range of people who would be interested in better understanding the manipulation of beliefs and morality to create intergroup divisions and intolerance for cooperation.
By:
George Green
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781032831435
ISBN 10: 103283143X
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part I Historical, cultural, and psychological foundations of intergroup divisions and prejudice, and the growth in followers of a radical and violent party. Chapter 1. Historical, cultural and political background before the Armenian genocide. Chapter 2. Psychological foundations for the growth and radicalization of the CPU/CUP. Part II Interrelationship of ideology, personality traits, psychological mechanisms and autocratic governance driving extremist beliefs and socially manipulative and violent actions. Chapter 3. Authoritarian ideologies Chapter 4. Dark personalities Chapter 5. Autocratic facilitation of extremist beliefs and violence Part III Unravelling the callous social-cognitive manipulation that drives the propaganda, the decision making process, and the orchestration and perpetration of genocide. Chapter 6. Propaganda Chapter 7. Young Turk meetings and directives associated with the Armenian genocide. Chapter 8. Perpetration of the Armenian genocide. Chapter 9. Interdependency of ideology, personality traits, and psychological mechanisms. Dimensions in concert with other risk factors in the prelude to and orchestration of the Armenian genocide
George Green is an independent researcher, whose primary research interests lie in the use of psychological mechanisms in the propaganda of both contemporary political leaders and those throughout history.
