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TOPICS (click to go to)

• CONFLICT, VIOLENCE, AND WAR
• GENOCIDE, DEMOCIDE, AND DEMOSLAUGHTER
• THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE
• DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
• METHODS
• PERSONAL

• Understanding Conflict and War (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications):
  • Vol. 1: The Dynamic Psychological Field, 1975: entire.
  • Vol. 2: The Conflict Helix, 1976: entire.
  • Vol. 3: Conflict In Perspective, 1977: entire.
  • Vol. 4: War, Power, Peace, 1979: entire.
  • Vol. 5: The Just Peace1981: entire.
• Knowing the Roots of War: Analyses and Interpretations of Six Centuries of Warfare (Collected Papers) By Frank H. Denton, Ph.D., 2003: entire.

ARTICLES/PAPERS/OTHER

• A Catastrophe Theory model of the conflict helix, with tests, Behavioral Science 32 (October 1987): 241-266.
• "American troops in Korea and the potential for war," ["The Conflict Helix and the Probability of a Korean War,"] U.S. Forces in Korea. [in Korean] Edited by Tong Whan Park. Seoul, Korea: The Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, 1990.
• "Is collective violence correlated with social pluralism?" Journal of Peace Research, 34 (May 1997): 163-175.

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GENOCIDE, DEMOCIDE, AND DEMOSLAUGHTER

BOOKS

• Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocides and Mass Murders 1917-1987, Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1990: Preface, References, and all tables of estimates, calculations and sources for each historical period.
• China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1991: Preface, Chapter 1, Methods Appendix, References, and all tables of estimates, calculations and sources for each historical period.
• Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder. Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1992: Preface, Chapter 1, References, and the summary overall table of estimates, calculations and sources.
• Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder in the Twentieth Century, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Preface; Chapters 1, 2, and 3; References; and the summary table for each megamurderer.
• Statistics of Democide. Center on National Security and Law, University of Virginia, 1997: entire. Republished by Lit Verlag, MŸster, Germany in 1998 and distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers.

ARTICLES/PAPERS/OTHER

• "War isn't this century's biggest killer," The Wall Street Journal, (July 7, 1986). >
• Graduate Course Syllabus PS740 on Repression and Democide, 1992
• "How many did communist regimes murder?" Paper, 1993.
• "Power, genocide, and mass murder," ["Power kills: genocide and mass murder,"] Journal of Peace Research 31 (No.1, 1994): 1-10.
• "Democide in totalitarian states: mortacracies and megamurderers [An annotated bibliography]," In Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Edited by Israel W. Charny. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
• "Democracy, power, genocide, and mass murder," ["Power predicts democide,"] Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 39 (March 1995): 3-26.
• "The Holocaust in comparative and historical perspective," In Contemporary Genocides: Causes, Cases, Consequences. Edited by Albert J. Jongman. Leiden, PIOOM, 1996
• "Democide vs. genocide. Which is what?". Written for this web site: May, 1998.
• "Genocide." Enciclopedia Italiana, 2002. P>
• Docudramas, an attempt to humanize democide totals through the story of one victim, ongoing.
• Who Were The Mortacracies in 2005. Defining mortacracies by their democide and demoslaughter.
• Photographs of democide.
• Attempts to visualize democide.

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THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE

BOOKS

• Power Kills. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1997: Preface, Chapters 1, 8, and 13; References; selected tables and figures.
  • Ted Galen Carpenter's Review of Power Kills in The Independent Review 2 (Winter 1998): 435-441.
  • Rummel's rebuttal to Ted Galen Carpenter's Review of Power Kills. See The Independent Review 3 (Summer 1998): 103-108
  • Ted Galen Carpenter's reply to Rummel's reply to his review. See The Independent Review 3 (Summer 1998): 109-110.
  • H-C. Peterson's response to Carpenter's review and reply.
• The following are novels in a what-if the democratic peace were fostered beginning in 1906, alternative history series titled a Never Again.
  • War & Democide Never Again, Book 1. First three chapters, 2004. Novel downloadable as a free pdf.
  • Nuclear Holocaust Never Again, Book 2. First three chapters of the published novel, 2004. Downloadable as a free pdf.
  • Reset Never Again, Book 3. First three chapters of the published novel, 2004. Downloadable as a free pdf.
  • Red Terror Never Again, Book 4 of the above series of novels. First chapter hook. 2004. Downloadable as a free pdf.
  • Genocide Never Again, Book 5 of the above series of novels. First chapter. 2005. Downloadable as a free pdf.
  • Never Again?, Book 6 of the above series of novels. First chapter. 2005. Downloadable as a free pdf.
  • Never Again Series Book Sheet. Gives an overall synopsis to the series, and provides a brief bio for Rummel
• Never Again: Ending War, Democide, & Famine Through Democratic Freedom, Nonfiction supplement to the above series of novels. Table of Contents. 2006. Downloadable as a free pdf.
• The Blue Book Of Freedom 2007 Ending famine, poverty, democide, and war.

ARTICLES/PAPERS/OTHER

• "Elective Governments--A Force For Peace," the first quantitative test of the democratic peace by Dean Babst.
• "Libertarianism and International Violence", Journal of Conflict Resolution 27 (March 1983): 27-71.
• "Libertarianism, Violence Within States, and the Polarity Principle", Comparative Politics 16 (July 1984): 443-62.
• "Libertarian Propositions on Violence Within and Between Nations: A Test Against Published Research Results", Journal of Conflict Resolution 29 (September 1985): 419-55.
• "War isn't this century's biggest killer," The Wall Street Journal, (July 7, 1986).
• "Political systems, violence, and war." ["The democratic peace: a new idea?"] In W. Scott Thompson and Kenneth M. Jensen, with Richard N. Smith and Kimber M. Schraub (Eds.). Approaches to Peace: An Intellectual Map. Washington, D.C.: The United States Institute of Peace, 1991: pp. 347-370. Also published as "The politics of cold blood," Society, Vol. 27 (November/December,1989): 32-40.
• "The rule of law: towards eliminating war," Speech given to the ABA National Security Conference on "The Rule of Law in United States Foreign Policy and the New World Order. Washington, D.C., October 10-11, 1991.
• "Waging peace through democracy," ["Waging denuclearization and social justice through democracy,"]Waging Peace Bulletin 4 (Winter 94/95).
• "Democracies ARE less warlike than other regimes," European Journal of International Relations Vol. 1 (December 1995):457-479.
• "Convocation Speech," University of Hawaii, May 12, 1996.
• What is the "democratic peace"? Written for this web site, November 1, 1998.
• Spencer Weart's summary chapter of Never At War
• Democide Since World War II. Written for this web site, April 3, 1999.
• "Statistics of Poland's Democide: Addenda". Written for this web site, November 24, 2000.
• Democratic Peace Clock and empirical evidence, September 21, 2001.
• "Eliminating Democide and War Through an Alliance of Democracies. Written for this web site, June 6, 2001.
• Comprehensive "Democratic Peace Bibliography," February 20, 2005
• Comprehensive Q&A, February 22, 2005
• Democratic Peace Chart front and back; pdf download is here for the front and back. Provides definitions, propositions, list of democracies, exceptions and why not, and supporting plots and data.

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DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

BOOKS

• The Conflict Helix: Principles and Practices of Interpersonal, Social, and International Conflict and Cooperation. Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1991: Introduction and a web site flyleaf
• The Miracle That Is Freedom. The Martin Institute, University of Idaho, 1996: with the inclusion on this site of Saving Lives, Enriching Life, Chapters 2-7 have been withdrawn as redundant (Chapter 1 has been revised to refer to the credibility of the web site, rather than the book itself, and Chapters 8-9 and bibliographies remain).
• Saving Lives, Enriching Life: Freedom as a Right, and a Moral Good, Published on this web site, 2001. Downloadable as a free pdf.
• The Blue Book of Freedom 2006 Audio Book.
• Freedom's Principles 2006: entire. Downloadable in free pdf.
• The Blue Book of Freedom 2006 Audio Book.
• Freedom's Principles 2006: entire. Downloadable in free pdf.

ARTICLES/PAPERS/OTHER

• "Now, there's a kinder, gentler argument in favor of a free press," ["Freedom of the press--A Way to Global Peace"]ASNE Bulletin, [ASNE: American Society of Newspaper Editors] (February 1989): 27
• "Human rights," In William Vogele and Roger Powers, Protest, Power, And Change: An Encyclopedia Of Nonviolence Action From Act-Up To Women's Suffrage, Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1996.
• "Democratization," In William Vogele and Roger Powers, Protest, Power, And Change: An Encyclopedia Of Nonviolence Action From Act-Up To Women's Suffrage, Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1996.
• The Declaration of Freedom of Humanity A declaration of freedom based on The Declaration of Independence.

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METHODS

BOOKS

• Understanding Correlation, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Political Science Department, 1976: entire.

ARTICLES/PAPERS/OTHER

• "Understanding Factor Analysis", Journal of Conflict Resolution (December 1967): 444-480.
• "On That Mysterious "p" In Quantitative Reports" 3/14/06)

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PERSONAL

ARTICLES/PAPERS/OTHER

• Freeman Interview of R.J. Rummel, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 47 (July 1997): 396-403.
• City Times Interviews with Laissez Faire Thinkers: R.J. Rummel.
• Galleries of Rummel's paintings/paintages.

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