The Problems of Genocide

A. Dirk Moses

ISBN 10: 1107503124 / ISBN 13: 9781107503120

Verlag: Cambridge University Pr. Feb 2021, 2021

Neuware -Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the 'crime of crimes', blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and the 'collateral damage' of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide, then, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of 'permanent security' imperatives: the striving of states, and armed groups seeking to found states, to make themselves invulnerable to threats.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 598 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781107503120

Inhaltsangabe:

Historically delineates the problems of genocide as a concept in relation to rival categories of mass violence.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: A. Dirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor in Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor of Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics (2020) and The Holocaust in Greece (2018).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Problems of Genocide
Verlag: Cambridge University Pr. Feb 2021
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu