Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton, and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. His writing ranges from Jewish history to genocide and anthropogenic climate change, including, most recently History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (co-edited with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts, 2010). He is founder of Rescue! History, and co-founder of the Crisis Forum. The two volumes of Crisis of Genocide continue a multi-volume project--begun with The Meaning of Genocide and The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (2005)--to chart the history of genocide in the age of the nation-state.

Winner of the 2015 Lemkin Book Award

"The book's breadth of vision, attention to detail, and awareness of synchronicity across these very different regions are remarkable...[The Crisis of the Genocide is] a remarkable, rich and suggestive history of national projects of elimination in Europe's murderous first half of the twentieth century."--Mark Roseman, Times Literary Supplement

"On the whole Mark Levene's impressive study is an extremely readable, informative, and timely book. It should become compulsory reading for Europe's youth in order to make sure that the events that have uprooted Europe in the first half of the 20th century will never happen again."--European Journal of International Law

"Few scholars match his [Levene's] panoptic erudition, synthetic ability, cosmopolitan sensitivity, and attention to detail...[A] very well-written, thoroughly researched, convincingly argued, and informative book that can be recommended for a broad audience including upper-level undergraduate and graduate students."--Holocaust and Genocide Studies