Ch. 1. Introduction : history and complicity / Adam Jones
Ch. 2. Shades of complicity : towards a topology of transnational crimes against humanity / Peter Stoett
Ch. 3. Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest for recompense / Jan-Bart Gewald
Ch. 4. Genocide by any other name : North American Indian residential schools in context / Ward Churchill
Ch. 5. allies in World War II : the Anglo-American bombardment of German cities / Eric Langenbacher
Ch. 6. Torture and other violations of the law by the French Army during the Algerian War / Raphaelle Branche
Ch. 7. Atrocity and its discontents : US double-mindedness about massacre, from the Plains Wars to Indonesia / Peter Dale Scott
Ch. 8. Bob Kerrey's atrocity, the crime of Vietnam and the historic pattern of US imperialism / S. Brian Willson
Document 1. Inaugural statement to the Russell Vietnam War crimes tribunal / Jean-Paul Sartre
Ch. 9. Charles Horman versus Henry Kissinger : US intervention in 1970s Chile and the case for prosecutions / Mario I. Aguilar
Ch. 10. wretched of the nations : the West's role in human rights violations in the Bangladesh War of independence / Suhail Islam and Syed Hassan
Ch. 11. Indicting Henry Kissinger : the response of Raphael Lemkin / Steven L. Jacobs
Ch. 12. Crimes of the West in Democratic Congo : reflections on Belgian acceptance of 'moral responsibility' for the death of Lumumba / Thomas Turner
Ch. 13. In the name of the Cold War : how the West aided and abetted the Barre dictatorship of Somalia / Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
Ch. 14. Security Council : behind the scenes in the Rwanda genocide / Linda R. Melvern
Ch. 15. US policy and Iraq : a case of genocide? / Denis J. Halliday
Document 2. Criminal complaint against the United States and others for crimes against the people of Iraq
Document 3. Letter to the Security Council / Ramsey Clark
Ch. 16. fire in 1999? : the United States, NATO and the bombing of Yugoslavia / David Bruce MacDonald
Ch. 17. Collateral damage : the human cost of structural violence / Peter G. Prontzos
Ch. 18. Institutional responses to genocide and mass atrocity / Ernesto Verdeja
Ch. 19. International citizens' tribunals on human rights / Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
Ch. 20. Coming to terms with the past : the case for a truth and reparations commission on slavery, segregation and colonialism / Francis Njubi Nesbitt
Document 4. Declarations on the transatlantic slave trade / World Conference Against Racism
Ch. 21. Afghanistan and beyond / Adam Jones
Ch. 22. Letter to America / Breyten Breytenbach.