"Doubt masterfully explicates the savage atrocities of the Bosnian war and uses those heinous deeds to construct a philosophy of evil uniquely suited for our time." -- -Bob Donia coauthor of A Tradition Betrayed "[A] passionataely written book..." -- -Asim Mujkic' University of Sarajevo "Doubt undertakes a bold and innovative sociological analysis of evil as actual social action. Invoking a rich humanistic ans sociological tradition, from Plato and Hobbes to Marx and Durkheim, the essays focus on ethnic cleansing, nationalism, and sociocide, and their evil perpetrators." -- -Edward A. Tiryakian Duke University " ... Understanding Evil succeeds in both enhancing our understanding of events in Bosnia-Herzegovina and of evil in our world today." -Slavic Review "Social theory at its best-high-minded yet empirically rich." -- -Charles Lemert Wesleyan University "Doubt is adept at identifying particular instances of the ill-effects of nationalism and how it wreaked havoc on the former Yugoslavia, and very particularly, on the Bosnian people." -Human Rights Quarterly