Human Rights in History #: The Problems of Genocide

Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

Human Rights in History #: The Problems of Genocide
A Dirk Moses
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Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the ' crime of crimes' , blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and the ' collateral damage' of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide, then, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide 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.

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' This refreshingly original book turns the problem of genocide on its head. Contrariwise to international law and the dominant memory regimes, Moses points at the aspiration for permanent security as the crux of the matter. Passionate and historically sweeping. ' Maria Malksoo, author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries ' A pioneer of genocide studies, A. Dirk Moses has written a terrific, transgressive book destined to upend the field he has helped to define. Uncomfortable with morality tales, Moses is intent on smashing the hierarchy of international crimes established in the aftermath of World War II. A gut punch to conventional wisdom, this is critical global history at its best. ' Jens Meierhenrich, author of Lawfare: A Genealogy (forthcoming) ' This brilliant, closely argued, and exhaustively referenced book makes a deeply persuasive case for replacing the prism of genocide with the crime of permanent security, calling out the multiple standards at play in the global order. A seminal paradigm-changer. ' Nandini Sundar, author of The Burning Forest: India' s War Against the Maoists ' Dirk Moses is the most original and provocative scholar writing on the problem of genocide. At its core deeply humanitarian, his book challenges every comfortable assumption of the meaning of genocide. This is essential reading for everyone concerned with human rights and mass atrocities. ' Eric D. Weitz, author of A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
A. Dirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor in Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor of Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics (2020) and The Holocaust in Greece (2018).
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ISBN-13: 9781107503120
Published: 4 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Weight: 808g
Pages: 610

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