| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Genocide, political violence, human rights series
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Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9) |
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9) |
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Genocide (International law)
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Genocide (International law) |
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Genocide intervention -- Political aspects.
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Genocide intervention. |
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Cold War.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.
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Soviet Union. |
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1991 |
| Subject |
United States -- Foreign relations.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780813594675 (electronic book) |
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0813594677 (electronic book) |
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9780813594699 (electronic book) |
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0813594693 (electronic book) |
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9780813594668 |
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0813594669 |
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9780813594651 |
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0813594650 |
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