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.
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. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Foreword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War 2 Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned 3 Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia 4 The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq 5 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia 6 (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention 7 Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement 8 Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia 9 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 10 An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty Conclusion Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948¿1988 Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Foreword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War 2 Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned 3 Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia 4 The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq 5 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia 6 (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention 7 Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement 8 Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia 9 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 10 An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty Conclusion Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948¿1988 Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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