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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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)
Genocide (International law)
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Guerre froide.
Devoir d'ingerence antigenocidaire > Aspect politique.
Cold War.
Genocide intervention > Political aspects.
United States.
Soviet Union.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures.
URSS > Relations exterieures > 1945-1991.
United States > Foreign relations.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1945-1991.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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