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The Problems of Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Paperback)
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The Problems of Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Paperback)
Series: Human Rights in History
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Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a
relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking
about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of
civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that
the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which
sits genocide as the 'crime of crimes', blinds us to other types of
humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and the
'collateral damage' of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide,
then, can function ideologically to detract from systematic
violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types.
The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the
consequence of 'permanent security' imperatives: the striving of
states, and armed groups seeking to found states, to make
themselves invulnerable to threats.
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