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- A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
summary
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Chapter 9: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- pp. 133-149
- Conclusion
- pp. 165-170
- Appendix A
- pp. 177-179
- Appendix B
- pp. 180-186
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 187-188
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-236
- About the Author
- p. 253
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813594699
Related ISBN(s)
9780813594668, 9780813594675, 9780813594682
MARC Record
OCLC
1031374129
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2018-04-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018