Select Bibliography on Denial of the Armenian Genocide

August 8, 2014

The Case of the Turkish Advertisements in U.S. Jewish Papers. Special Report. Cambridge, MA:
Zoryan Institute, 1983.
U.S. Academicians and Lobbying. Journal of the Armenian Assembly of America 14, no. 1
(1987): 1, 6-8, 12.
That Controversial G-Word. Economist, no. February 3 (2001): 55.
Aar, Dilaver Arkan and nan Rma External Pressure and Turkish Discourse on Recognition
of the Armenian Genocide. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 7, no. 3 (2007):
449-65.
Adalian, Rouben. The Armenian Genocide: Revisionism and Denial. In Genocide in Our
Time: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions, edited by Michael N.
Dobkowski and Isidor Walliman, 85-105. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1992.
. The Ramifications in the United States of the 1995 French Court Decision on the
Denial of the Armenian Genocide and Princeton University. Revue du monde armnien
moderne et contemporain 3 (1997): 99-122.
. Source, Evidence, and Authority: Documenting the Armenian Genocide against the
Background of Denial. In Genocide: Essays toward Understanding, Early-Warning, and
Prevention, edited by Roger W. Smith, 67-77. Williamsburg, VA: International
Association of Genocide Scholars, 1999.
Akam, Taner. Anatomy of a Crime: The Turkish Historical Societys Manipulation of Archival
Documents. Journal of Genocide Research 7, no. 2 (2005): 255-77.
. Anatomy of Genocide and Denial: Academics, Politicians, and the Remaking Of
History. Minneapolis: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of
Minnesota, 2005.
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/occasional/akcam_anatomy_of_denial.pdf
. Denial as a Security Concept. Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 10 (2008): 23340.
. Facing History: Denial and the Turkish National Security Concept. In Confronting
Genocide. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 7, edited by Ren
Provost and Payam Akhavan, 151-57. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011.
. The Genocide of the Armenians and the Silence of the Turks. In Levon Chorbajian
and George Shirinian, eds., Studies in Comparative Genocide. London: Macmillian and
New York: St. Martins Press, 1999, pp. 125-146. (Reprinted in Taner Akam, Dialogue
across an International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue.
Cambridge, MA and Toronto, ON: Zoryan Institute, 2001, pp. 75-101.)
. Guenter Lewys the Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey. Genocide Studies and
Prevention 3, no. 1 (2008): 111-45.
. Le Tabou Du Gnocide Armnien. Le Monde Diplomatique, juillet 2001, 20-21.
Akam, Taner and Belinda Cooper. Turks, Armenians, and the G-Word. World Policy
Journal 22, no. 3 (2005): 81-93.
Auron, Yair. The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Pub., 2003.
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Alayarian, Aida. Consequences of Denial: The Armenian Genocide. London: Karnac Books,
2008.
Avedian, Vahagn. State Identity, Continuity, and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the
Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide. European Journal of International
Law 23, no. 3 (2012): 797-820.
Beachler, Donald W. The Genocide Debate: Politicians, Academics, and Victims. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Bilali, Rezarta. National Narrative and Social Psychological Influences in Turks Denial of the
Mass Killings of Armenians as Genocide. Journal of Social Issues 69, no. 1 (2013): 1633.
Bloxham, Donald. The Roots of American Genocide Denial: Near Eastern Geopolitics and the
Interwar Armenian Question. Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 1 (2006): 27-49.
Boyajian, Levon Z. and Haikaz M. Grigorian. Reflections on the Denial of the Armenian
Genocide. Psychoanalytic Review 85 (1998): 505-16.
Charny, Israel W. A Classification of Denials of the Holocaust and Other Genocides. Journal
of Genocide Research 5, no. 1 (2003): 11-34.
. A Contribution to the Psychology of Denial of Genocide. Journal of Armenian
Studies 4, no. 1-2 (1992): 289-306.
. Innocent Denials of Known Genocides: A Further Contribution to a Psychology of
Denial of Genocide Human Rights Review 1, no. 3 (2000): 15-39.
. The Psychological Satisfaction of Denials of the Holocaust or Other Genocides by
Non-Extremists or Bigots, Even by Known Scholars. Idea: A Journal of Social Issues 6,
no. 1 (2001): 1-22.
. The Psychology of Denial of Known Genocides. In Genocide: A Critical
Bibliographic Review. Vol. 2, edited by Israel W. Charny, 3-37. New York and Oxford:
Facts on File, 1991.
Charny, I.W. and Daphna Fromer. Denying the Armenian Genocide: Patterns of Thinking as
Defense Mechanisms. Patterns of Prejudice 32, no. 1 (1998): 39-49.
Cohen, Stanely. Human Rights and Crimes of the State: The Culture of Denial. Australian &
New Zealand Journal of Criminology 26 (1993): 97-115.
Cohen, Stanely. States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering. Malden, MA: Polity
Press, 2001.
Dadrian, Vahakn N. The Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case
Study of Distortion and Falsification. Cambridge, MA and Toronto: Zoryan Institute,
1999.
. Ottoman Archives and Denial of the Armenian Genocide. In The Armenian Genocide:
History, Politics, Ethics, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, 280-310. New York: St.
Martins Press, 1992.
. The Perversion by Turkish Sources of Russian General Mayewskis Report on the
Turko-Armenian Conflict. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 5 (1991): 13952.
. The Signal Facts Surrounding the Armenian Genocide and the Turkish Denial
Syndrome. Journal of Genocide Research 5, no. 2 (2003): 269-79.
Der Matossian, Bedross. Venturing into the Minefield: Turkish Liberal Historiography and the
Armenian Genocide. In The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies, edited
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by Richard G. Hovannisian, 369-88. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Pub.,

2007.
Dixon, Jennifer M. Defending the Nation? Maintaining Turkeys Narrative of the Armenian
Genocide. South European Society & Politics 15, no. 3 (2010): 467-85.
Dixon, Jennifer M. Education and National Narratives: Changing Representations of the
Armenian Genocide in History Textbooks in Turkey. International Journal for
Education Law and Policy, Special Issue (2010): 103-26
Dolabjian, Vartkes S. The Armenian Genocide as Portrayed in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Journal of Genocide Research 5, no. 1 (2003): 103-15.
Fein, Helen. Denying Genocide: From Armenia to Bosnia, Occasional Papers in Comparative
and International Politics. London: London School of Economics and Political Science,
2001.
Fleming, Mark C. Government Speech, Free Speech, and Education: The Constitutional
Challenge to the Massachusetts Genocide Education Guide. University of St. Thomas
Journal of Law and Public Policy 4, no. 2 (2010): 18-30.
Foss, Clive. The Atrocious Armenians of Van: The Modern Turkish View. In Armenian
Van/Vaspurakan, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, 245-58. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda
Publishers, 2000.
Frieze, Donna-Lee. Cycles of Genocide, Stories of Denial: Atom Egoyans Ararat. Genocide
Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 3, no. 2 (2008): 243-62.
Garibian, Svane. Taking Denial Seriously: Genocide Denial and Freedom of Speech in the
French Law. Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 9, no. 2 (2008): 479-88.
Gek, Fatma Mge. Reading Genocide: Turkish Historiography on 1915. In A Question of
Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Ronald
Grigor Suny, Fatma Mge Gek and Norman M. Naimark, 42-52. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011
. Turkish Historiography and the Unbearable Weight of 1915. In The Armenian
Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, 337-67.
New Brunswick and London: Transaction Pub., 2007.
Goekjian, Gregory F. Diaspora and Denial: The Holocaust and the Question of the Armenian
Genocide. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 7, no. 1 (1998): 3-24.
Guroian, Vigen. Collective Responsibility and Official Excuse Making: The Case of the
Turkish Genocide of the Armenians. In The Armenian Genocide in Perspective, edited
by Richard G. Hovannisian, 135-52. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1986.
Hajinian, Sevan. The Armenian Genocide Denied: A Response to Turkeys Thirteen Propaganda
Spins. Second ed. Toronto: Armenian National Committee of Canada, 2011.
Holthouse, David. State of Denial: Turkey Spends Millions to Cover up Armenian Genocide.
Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report Summer (2008): 6p.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-allissues/2008/summer/state-of-denial
Housepian-Dobkin, Marjorie. What Genocide? What Holocaust? News from Turkey, 19151923: A Case Study. In The Armenian Genocide in Perspective, edited by Richard G.
Hovannisian, 97-109. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1986.
Hovannisian, Richard G. The Armenian Genocide and Patterns of Denial. In The Armenian
Genocide in Perspective, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, 111-33. New Brunswick, NJ
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and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1986.

. Denial of the Armenian Genocide as a Prototype. In Between Paris and Fresno:
Armenian Studies in Honor of Dickran Kouymjian, edited by Barlow Der Mugrdechian,
571-98. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2008.
. Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Comparison with Holocaust Denial. In
Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, edited by Richard G.
Hovannisian, 201-36. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.
. Forum: The Armenian Question. The Critics View: Beyond Revisionism.
International Journal of Middle East Studies 9 (1978): 379-88.
. Genocide and Denial: The Armenian Case. In Toward the Understanding and
Prevention of Genocide. Proceedings of International Conference on the Holocaust &
Genocide, edited by Israel W. Charny, 84-99. Boulder and London: Westview, 1984.
. Introduction: The Armenian Genocide. Remembrance and Denial. In Remembrance
and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, 1321. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.
. Rewriting History: Revisionism and Beyond in the Study of Armenian-Turkish
Relations. Ararat 3 (1978): 2-10.
. Scholarship and Politics. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 2 (1986): 16985.
Huttenbach, Henry H. The Psychology and Politics of Genocide Denial: A Comparison of Four
Case Studies. In Levon Chorbajian and George Shirinian, eds., Studies in Comparative
Genocide. London: Macmillian and New York: St. Martins Press (1999): 216-229.
Jacobs, Steven L. Perspectives on the Armenian Genocide. Journal of the Society for
Armenian Studies 19, no. 1 (2010): 21-43.
Kaiser, Hilmar. Denying the Armenian Genocide: The German Connection. Journal of the
Society for Armenian Studies 9 (1996-1997): 37-53.
. From Empire to Republic: The Continuities of Turkish Denial. Armenian Review 48,
no. 3-4 (2003): 1-24.
Kchichian, Joseph A. The Armenian Genocide and an Updated Denial Initiative: A Review
Essay. Genocide Studies and Prevention 2, no. 2 (2007): 173-82.
Mamigonian, Marc. Scholarship, Manufacturing Doubt, and Genocide Denial. The Armenian
Weekly, no. April (2013): 37-42.
Minassian, Edward. Musa Dagh: A Chronicle of the Armenian Genocide Factor in the
Subsequent Suppression, by the Intervention of the United States Government, of the
Movie Based on Franz Werfels the Forty Days of Musa Dagh. Nashville: Cold Tree
Press, 2007.
Mueller, Alfred G. II. Affirming Denial through Preemptive Apologia: The Case of the
Armenian Genocide Resolution. Western Journal of Communication 68 (2004): 24-44.
Nash-Marshall, Siobhan, and Rita Mahdessian. Lies, Damned Lies, and Genocide.
Metaphilosophy 44, no. 1-2 (2013): 116-44.
Nichanian, Marc. The Historiographic Perversion. Translated by Gil Anidjar. New York:
Columbia UP, 2009.
Reid, James. Armenian Massacres in Ottoman and Turkish Historiography. Armenian Review
37, no. 1-145 (1984): 22-40.
Robertson, Geoffrey. Was There and Armenian Genocide? University of St. Thomas Journal of
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Law and Public Policy 4, no. 2 (2010): 83-127.

Sarafian, Ara. The Ottoman Archives Debate and the Armenian Genocide. Armenian Forum 2,
no. 1 (1999): 35-44.
Schabas, William A. The Armenians and the G-Word. In Conference on Human Rights
Issues in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, 55-61. Toronto: Hellenic-Canadian
Federation of Ontario, 2000.
Shemmassian, Vahram L. Literature, Film, and Armenian Genocide Denial: The Case of Franz
Werfels the Forty Days of Musa Dagh. In Between Paris and Fresno: Armenian
Studies in Honor of Dickran Kouymjian, edited by Barlow Der Mugrdechian, 547-69.
Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2008.
Shirinian, Lorne. The Armenian Genocide and Its Aftermath: Genocide Denial, a Canadian
Perspective. In The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference, edited by
Lorne Shirinian and Alan Whitehorn, 32-54. Kingston, Ontario: Blue Heron Press, 2001.
. Quest for Closure: The Armenian Genocide and the Search for Justice in Canada.
Kingston, ON: Blue Heron Press, 1999.
Smith, Roger W. Denial of the Armenian Genocide. In Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic
Review, edited by Israel W. Charny, 63-85. New York: Facts On File, 1991
. Genocide and Denial: The Armenian Case and Its Implications. Armenian Review 42,
no. 1-165 (1990): 1-38.
. Legislating against Genocide Denial: Criminalizing Denial or Preventing Free
Speech? University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy 4, no. 2 (2010):
128-37.
Smith, Roger W., Eric Markusen, and Robert Jay Lifton. Professional Ethics and the Denial of
the Armenian Genocide. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 9, no. 1 (1995): 1-22.
. Professional Ethics and the Denial of the Armenian Genocide. In Remembrance and
Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, 271-95.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999. [reprint of the item above]
Stanton, Gregory H. Twelve Ways to Deny a Genocide. In Darfur: Genocide before Our Eyes,
edited by Joyce Apsel, 43-47. New York: Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2005.
Tatz, Colin. Why Denialists Deny. In Genocide Perspectives Ii, edited by Peter Arnold and
Sandra Tatz Colin Tatz, 267-84. Sydney, Australia: Brandt & Schlesinger with the
Australian Institute for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, 2003.
Theriault, Hank. Universal Social Theory and the Denial of Genocide: Norman Itzkowitz
Revisited. Journal of Genocide Research 3, no. 2 (2001): 241-56.
Theriault, Henry C. Denial and Free Speech: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. In Looking
Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide, edited by Richard G.
Hovannisian, 231-61. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
Ulgen, Fatma. Reading Mustafa Kemal Atatrk on the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Patterns
of Prejudice 44, no. 4 (2010): 369-91.
Van Boven, Tho. Paragraph 30: Note on the Deleted Reference to the Massacre of the
Armenians in the Study on the Question of the Prevention and the Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide. In A Crime of Silence: The Armenian Genocide, edited by
Permanent Peoples Tribunal, 168-72. London: Zed Books, 1985.
Watenpaugh, Keith David. The Origins of Armenian Genocide Denial and League of Nations
Humanitarianism 1920-1922. Armenian Review 52, no. 1-2 (2010): 45-63.
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Zrcher, Erik Jan. Renewal and Silence: Postwar Unionist and Kemalist Rhetoric on the
Armenian Genocide. In A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the
Ottoman Empire, edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Mge Gek and Norman M.
Naimark, 306-16. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.