Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. Surveying studies of human rights, political science, and legal theory, Hannibal Travis argues that large states and empires disproportionately committed or facilitated genocide and other mass killings between 1945 and 2011. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by a ...
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Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. Surveying studies of human rights, political science, and legal theory, Hannibal Travis argues that large states and empires disproportionately committed or facilitated genocide and other mass killings between 1945 and 2011. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by a detailed exploration of U.N. archives covering the period spanning from 1945 through 2011, and data concerning factors linked to the scale of mass killing. Questions raised include: Is it morally or legally legitimate for a state whose survival or borders are threatened to respond with disproportionate force to liberation movements, secessionist conspiracies, or external interference in its affairs? Have the United Nations or the International Criminal Court faced up to these problems, as is their mandate? What practical steps can the United Nations and its members take to prevent and punish genocide and politicide?
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