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Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978807037)
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x2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Featured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Why do we allow our governments to get away with "bystanding" to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway "others" into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of "never again" to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?
Author: Eyal Mayroz
ISBN-10: 1978807031
ISBN-13: 9781978807037
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2019
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2020
Featured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Why do we allow our governments to get away with "bystanding" to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway "others" into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of "never again" to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?
Author: Eyal Mayroz
ISBN-10: 1978807031
ISBN-13: 9781978807037
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2019
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2020
By Eyal Mayroz
xEYAL MAYROZ is a senior lecturer in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. He has researched and written extensively on the relationships between the U.S. public, the media, and American foreign policy on genocide. He is a member of the Genocide Prevention Advisory Network, an international group of experts who advise governments on the causes, consequences, and prevention of genocide, and other mass atrocities.
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