Overview

This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, the collection is an essential resource for students and scholars working in the field of comparative genocide studies. The selected records span the Cold War period and reflect on specific issues relevant to the Genocide Convention, as established at the time by the parties concerned. The types of documents reproduced in the collection include interoffice correspondence, memorandums, whitepapers, guidelines for national delegations, commissioned reports, draft letters, telegrams, meeting minutes, official and unofficial inquiries, formal statements, and newspaper and journal articles. On a classification curve, the featured records range from unrestricted to top secret. Taken in the aggregate, the documents reproduced in this collection suggest primacy of politics over humanitarian and/or legal considerations in the UN Genocide Convention.

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Author:   Anton Weiss-Wendt
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   1.548kg
ISBN:  

9781474279796

ISBN 10:   1474279791
Publication Date:   20 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Volume I Acknowledgements List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Archival Collections Introduction I. Genocide: From a Concept to a United Nations Resolution, 1933-1946 II. The United Nations Secretariat Draft Genocide Convention, 1947 III. Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide, January-August 1948 IV. Debates on the Draft Genocide Convention in the UN General Assembly, September-December 1948 V. Lobbying in Behalf of the Genocide Convention, 1947-1948 United Nations Concention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: The Three Drafts, 1947-48 Further Reading Index Volume II VI. The United Kingdom Government Split on the Issue of Accession to the Genocide Convention, 1949-1953 VII. The United States Delays Action on the Genocide Convention, 1949-1962 VIII. The Issue of Reservations to the Genocide Convention, 1949-1952 IX. Indicting Communist Countries for Genocide, 1949-1959 X. The Genocide Convention vs. Nuremberg Principles, Draft Covenants on Human Rights, and/or the Draft Code of Offenses against the Peace and Security of Mankind, 1949-1954 XI. The Korean War, 1950-1953 XII. We Charge Genocide: The Campaign to Indict the United States for Racial Discrimination, 1951-1952 XIII. The Lonely Voice of Raphael Lemkin, 1949-1959 XIV. The United Kingdom Inches Closer to Acceding to the Genocide Convention, 1962-1968 XV. The Public Campaign Pro and Counter US Ratification of the Genocide Convention, 1970-1977 XVI. The Armenian Question, 1964-1985 XVII. A Final Push for the UN Genocide Convention, 1983-1988 Further Reading Index

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Through meticulous research, Anton Weiss-Wendt has assembled the most important documents covering the history of the UN Genocide Convention. This a landmark contribution to Genocide Studies and International Legal History, and an invaluable resource to students and scholars for generations to come. * Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor and Director of the Genocide Prevention Program, George Mason University, USA *

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Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. His recent publications include Racial Science in Hitler's Europe, 1939-1945 (2013) and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (2013).

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