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