A rhetorical crime : genocide in the geopolitical discourse of the Cold War /

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A Rhetorical Crime shows how, over the course of the Cold War era, genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in international propaganda battles. Through a unique comparative analysis of U.S. and Soviet statements on genocide, Weiss-Wendt investigates why their moral post...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Colección:Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
Temas:
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide > (1948 December 9)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
1945-1991
Genocide (International law)
Genocide intervention > Political aspects.
Cold War.
Devoir d'ingérence antigénocidaire > Aspect politique.
Guerre froide.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Diplomatic relations.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1945-1991.
United States > Foreign relations.
URSS > Relations extérieures > 1945-1991.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Soviet scholars of international law as foot soldiers in the Cold War
  • Trial by word: the Gulag condemned
  • Soviet satellites shift allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia
  • The struggle for influence in postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq
  • Southeast Asia and the rise of communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia
  • (Soviet) piggy in the middle: American liberal left vs radical right on US ratification of the Genocide Convention
  • Moscow taps the new left: the Vietnam antiwar movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian movement
  • Soviet-Turkish relations and socialist Armenia
  • The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • An uncertain end to the Cold War and the reactivation of the Genocide Treaty
  • Conclusion.

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