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A rhetorical crime : genocide in the geopolitical discourse of the Cold War / Anton Weiss-Wendt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Genocide, political violence, human rightsPublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813594675
  • 9780813594699
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KZ7180 .R448 2018
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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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.

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