{"product_id":"a-rhetorical-crime-genocide-in-the-geopolitical-discourse-of-the-cold-war-paperback-softback-9780813594651","title":"A Rhetorical Crime; Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813594651","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Rhetorical Crime\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGenocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnton Weiss-Wendt (Author), Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813594651\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-June-8-2018\/243561\"'\u003e\"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8,\" by Nina C. Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e— Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Anton Weiss-Wendt has presented clear and innovative arguments on a crucial topic and scrupulously supported them with relevant documents and other evidence. In so doing, he has written a salutary alternative narrative of human rights in the Cold War, one that has the potential to improve our understanding of Cold War dynamics as a whole.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Michigan War Studies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"No one to date has documented the history of the concept of genocide with the same level of sophistication as Weiss-Wendt. \u003ci\u003eA Rhetorical Crime\u003c\/i\u003e stands as the definitive study of this period in the evolution of international criminal law.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— David Crowe, author of War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eThe Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eA Rhetorical Crime\u003c\/i\u003e shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eForeword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSoviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e 2 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTrial by Word: The Gulag Condemned\u003cbr\u003e 3 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSoviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia\u003cbr\u003e 4 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq\u003cbr\u003e 5 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSoutheast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia\u003cbr\u003e 6 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e(Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention\u003cbr\u003e 7 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eMoscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement\u003cbr\u003e 8 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSoviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia\u003cbr\u003e 9 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe Israeli-Palestinian Conflict\u003cbr\u003e 10 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAn Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948‒1988\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52652658000152,"sku":"9780813594651","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-rhetorical-crime-genocide-in-the-geopolitical-discourse-of-the-cold-war-paperback-softback-9780813594651","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}