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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hannibal Travis |
ISBN: | 9780415531252 041553125X 9780203116210 0203116216 9781138914698 113891469X |
OCLC Number: | 776535399 |
Description: | xiv, 361 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Expansive Empire and Political Tyranny -- Theorizing Ethnonationalist Violence -- The Large Country Syndrome -- Genocide and the Security Council -- Ethnonationalist Entrepreneurship within the U.N. Framework -- A New Cosmopolitical Order? -- Conclusion. |
Series Title: | Routledge advances in international relations and global politics, 99. |
Responsibility: | Hannibal Travis. |
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"With a global gaze and cosmopolitan sensibility, Hannibal Travis identifies the genocidal conjunctures of the postwar world in the instability of over-sized polities and their tendency to interfere destructively in the affairs of countries whose resources they crave. As a creature of this system, and especially the United Nations Security Council, the UN is indicted for its woeful record of prevention and punishment of genocide. Travis presents a bleak picture of our time whose only mitigation is the thin reed of the law. Sober yet hopeful, this book is a major achievement."-A. Dirk Moses, European University Institute"You have to love as well as be impressed with Travis' combination of good old-fashioned high quality scholarship with a love of human life, human rights, and decency that reach out to and inspire the reader. Travis follows in the footsteps of the great Leo Kuper's The Prevention of Genocide (1985). He tells the truths of how ethnonationalism and imperialism over and over again prove stronger than a law of nations so long as a robust international criminal tribunal and a robust UN army have not come in to being. A highly recommended and memorable study."-Israel W. Charny, Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem Read more...

