Problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression /
Moses, A. Dirk,
Problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression / A. Dirk Moses. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - xi, 598 pages ; 24 cm. - Human rights in history . - Human rights in history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Genocide is a problem: not only the terrible fact of mass death, but also how the relatively new idea and law of genocide organises and distorts our thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, this book argues that the implicit hierarchy of international law, atop which sits genocide as the "crime of crimes," blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, the "collateral damage" of missile and drone strikes, blockades, and sanctions. In other words, talk of genocide functions ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments. The Problems of Genocide also 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. To solve the problems of genocide, this book proposes replacing it with permanent security, which should be criminalized"--
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2020023794
Genocide--Prevention.
Atrocities--Prevention.
Genocide intervention.
Genocide--Law and legislation.
Human rights.
Human Rights
Devoir d'ingerence antigenocidaire.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Genocide intervention
Genocide--Law and legislation
Genocide--Prevention
Human rights
HV6322 / .M68 2021
Problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression / A. Dirk Moses. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - xi, 598 pages ; 24 cm. - Human rights in history . - Human rights in history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Genocide is a problem: not only the terrible fact of mass death, but also how the relatively new idea and law of genocide organises and distorts our thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, this book argues that the implicit hierarchy of international law, atop which sits genocide as the "crime of crimes," blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, the "collateral damage" of missile and drone strikes, blockades, and sanctions. In other words, talk of genocide functions ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments. The Problems of Genocide also 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. To solve the problems of genocide, this book proposes replacing it with permanent security, which should be criminalized"--
9781316217306 1316217302 9781009028325 1009028324
2020023794
Genocide--Prevention.
Atrocities--Prevention.
Genocide intervention.
Genocide--Law and legislation.
Human rights.
Human Rights
Devoir d'ingerence antigenocidaire.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Genocide intervention
Genocide--Law and legislation
Genocide--Prevention
Human rights
HV6322 / .M68 2021