A rhetorical crime : genocide in the geopolitical discourse of the Cold War /
Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973-
A rhetorical crime : genocide in the geopolitical discourse of the Cold War / Anton Weiss-Wendt. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Genocide, political violence, human rights .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780813594675 9780813594699
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
Genocide (International law)
Genocide intervention--Political aspects.
Cold War.
Electronic Books.
KZ7180 / .R448 2018
A rhetorical crime : genocide in the geopolitical discourse of the Cold War / Anton Weiss-Wendt. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Genocide, political violence, human rights .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780813594675 9780813594699
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
Genocide (International law)
Genocide intervention--Political aspects.
Cold War.
Electronic Books.
KZ7180 / .R448 2018