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The Problems of Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,274
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The Problems of Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Hardcover): A. Dirk Moses

The Problems of Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Hardcover)

A. Dirk Moses

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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Human Rights in History
Release date: 2021
Authors: A. Dirk Moses
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-10358-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > General
LSN: 1-107-10358-4
Barcode: 9781107103580

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