Alette her newest and most important book is Perpetrators of mass atrocities – terribly and terrifyingly normal? (Routledge 2024) and costs – depending on the store between 30-46 Euro’s). The book received excellent reviews.
“This is an outstanding book. … The book is highly informative, easy to read, a tremendous contribution to the literature on atrocities.” (Ervin Staub, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, author of The Roots of Evil)
“[A] ground-breaking volume.” (Alex P. Schmid, professor emeritus, terrorism expert and former Research Coordinator of PIOOM)
” A must-read for international criminal law practitioners.” (Caroline Fournet, Head of the Law School at the University of Exeter).
“Alette Smeulers has written an amazing book that is a must-read for scholars and policy makers in the field of atrocity crimes and human rights in general.” (Stephan Parmentier, Professor of Criminology and Human Rights at KU Leuven)
A ‘beautiful and important book’ which should be mandatory reading for all historians … [Alette breaks through the rigid discussions as to whether it is this or that and shows that it is both possible; that all kinds of factors play a role’ I very much hope that the book will be translated in Dutch’. [Bas Kromhout, editor-in-chief of Historisch Nieuwsblad in Dutch in BoekenCast, see Historische BoekenCast as off minute 34:20).
