A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

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Synopsis
The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics?A Rhetorical Crime shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.
Copyright:
2018

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ISBN-13:
9780813594675
Related ISBNs:
9780813594668
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Anton Weiss-Wendt, Douglas Irvin-Erickson
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
Grade Levels:
College Freshman
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Bookshare Staff
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