Politics of Genocide From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect
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Biographical note
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN is a senior professorial lecturer in human rights at the American University School of International Service in Washington, DC. He is the author of The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship and editor of Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations."In <i>The Politics of Genocide</i>, Jeffrey S. Bachman conducts an unsparing analysis of the United Nations (UN) Genocide Convention’s formulation in 1947-48 and subsequent selective application by the permanent members of the UN Security Council. Decrying the orchestrated 'culture of impunity for genocide,' this book is a necessary corrective to the view that the Genocide Convention has humanized world politics."
- Dirk Moses, author of The Problems of Genocide
A rigorous and revisionist study of how framings of genocide, and applications of the relevant international law, granted effective impunity to the world's most powerful state actors -- and still do. Bachman's book is readable and accessible. It serves as an excellent complement and counterweight to standard treatments of this vital subject.
- Adam Jones, author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction