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  1. A Rhetorical Crime
    Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813594699
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    Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Subjects: Cold War; Communist; Genocide Convention; Raphael Lemkin; Soviet Union; Soviet genocide; Soviet-American; US.; USSR.; genocide; human rights; international; politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Cold War; Genocide (International law); Genocide intervention; Ost-West-Konflikt; Völkermord <Motiv>; Internationale Politik; Propaganda
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  2. A Rhetorical Crime
    Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    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... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    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

     

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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813594699
    Other identifier:
    Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Subjects: Cold War; Communist; Genocide Convention; Raphael Lemkin; Soviet Union; Soviet genocide; Soviet-American; US.; USSR.; genocide; human rights; international; politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Cold War; Genocide (International law); Genocide intervention; Ost-West-Konflikt; Völkermord <Motiv>; Internationale Politik; Propaganda
    Scope: 1 online resource
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)