Description
| Product ID: | 9780521110136 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Genocide and International Relations |
| Subtitle: | Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World |
| Authors: | Author: Martin Shaw |
| Page Count: | 246 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Politics and government, International relations, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Politics & government, International relations |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Genocide can be assumed to be a problem of dictatorial regimes. This book shows that targeted violence against population groups is a much larger problem, that patterns of genocide depend on international contexts, and that genocide in the modern world can be stimulated as well as constrained by global change. Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political and cultural context in which the field has developed. In particular, a narrow vision of comparative studies has been influential in which genocide is viewed mainly as a ''domestic'' phenomenon of states. This book emphasizes the international context of genocide, seeking to specify more precisely the relationships between genocide and the international system. Shaw aims to re-interpret the classical European context of genocide in this frame, to provide a comprehensive international perspective on Cold War and post-Cold War genocide, and to re-evaluate the key transitions of the end of the Second World War and the end of the Cold War. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-09-19 |
