The Cambridge world history of Genocide general editor: Ben Kiernan Yale University ; volume 3: Genocide in the contemporary era 1914 2020 Volume III examines the most well known century of genocide the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing and their relationships to modernity it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism Total War Imperial Collapse and Revolution; the crises of World War Two; the Cold War; and Globalization. Twenty eight scholars with expertise in specific regions document thirty genocides from 1918 to 2021 in Europe the Middle East Africa Asia and Latin America. The cases range from the Armenian Genocide to Maoist China from the Holocaust to Stalins Ukraine from Indonesia to Guatemala Biafra Bangladesh Cambodia Bosnia and Rwanda and finally the contemporary fate of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the ISIS slaughter of Yazidis in Iraq. The volume ends with a chapter on the strategies for genocide prevention moving forward