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Author:
Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- author.
Title:
A rhetorical crime : genocide in the geopolitical discourse of the Cold War / Anton Weiss-Wendt.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xvi, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide--(1948 December 9)
Genocide (International law)
Genocide intervention--Political aspects.
Cold War.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
United States--Foreign relations.
Notes:
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.
Series:
Genocide, political violence, human rights series
ISBN:
0813594650
9780813594651
0813594669
9780813594668
OCLC:
(OCoLC)994974160
LCCN:
2017033842
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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