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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781107103580 , 9781107503120
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 598 Seiten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Human rights in history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 364.15/1
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    Keywords: Genocide Prevention ; Atrocities Prevention ; Genocide intervention ; Genocide Law and legislation ; Human rights ; Völkermord ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Prävention ; Intervention ; Menschenrecht ; Rechtsstellung
    Abstract: "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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    URL: Rezension  (H-Soz-Kult)
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781316602652 , 9781107148765
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 244 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mann, Itamar, author Humanity at sea
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mann, Itamar Humanity at Sea
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mann, Itamar Humanity at sea
    DDC: 341.4/86
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    Keywords: Refugees Legal status, laws, etc ; Boat people Legal status, laws, etc ; International law and human rights ; Internationale Migration ; Bootsflüchtling ; Seenot ; Menschenrecht ; Völkerrecht
    Abstract: Introduction : humanity washed ashore -- Flagless vessel -- What is a human rights claim? -- What is a human rights commitment? -- Between moral blackmail and moral risk -- The place where we stand -- Imagination and the human rights encounter -- Conclusion : the dual foundation of international law -- Postscript
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Includes bibliographical references and index
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