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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452945703321

Autore

Spencer Philip

Titolo

Genocide since 1945 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

1-280-87427-9

9786613715586

1-136-29368-X

1-136-29367-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

The Making of the Contemporary World

Disciplina

364.151

364.15109045

Soggetti

Crimes against humanity

Genocide

HISTORY / General

HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century

HISTORY / World

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Maps; Introduction; 1 Never again? From the Holocaust to the Genocide Convention; 2 The Genocide Convention; 3 Explaining genocide; 4 Perpetrators, bystanders, victims and rescuers; 5 Genocide during the Cold War; 6 Genocide after the Cold War; 7 Genocide and humanitarian intervention; 8 Justice and prevention; Conclusion: the politics of genocide today; Notes; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill's words, been a ""crime without a name"", and to punish the perpetrators. Since then, however, genocide has recurred repeatedly. Millions of people have been murdered by sovereign nation states, confident in their ability to act with impunity within their own borders. Tracing the history of genocide since 1945,



and looking at a number of cases across continents and decades, this book discusses a range of critical and inter