{"product_id":"a-rhetorical-crime-anton-weiss-wendt-9780813594668","title":"A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War","description":"The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Rhetorical Crime\u003c\/i\u003e shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anton Weiss-Wendt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813594669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813594668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.48h x 7.76w x 0.82d","brand":"Anton Weiss-Wendt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086911942911,"sku":"9780813594668","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_932d0a72-fab1-46af-952e-c9413828777f.jpg?v=1769097283","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-rhetorical-crime-anton-weiss-wendt-9780813594668","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}