Genocide and the Europeans

Informationen zum Autor Karen E. Smith is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively about the European Union's foreign relations, including the role that human rights may play in those relations, and was the winner of the 2007 Anna Lindh Award for excellence in research on European foreign and security policy. Her most recent books include European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World (2nd edition, 2008) and The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms (with Katie Verlin Laatikainen, 2006). Klappentext A unique view of European governments' reaction to genocide in the post-Cold War world. Zusammenfassung A unique study of the questionable responses of major European governments to purported genocides! and their attitudes towards the 1948 Genocide Convention. Karen E. Smith analyses why European governments have been reluctant to use the term genocide to describe many cases of atrocities! and to take any coercive action. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The norms against genocide; 2. European governments and the development of the international legal framework on genocide; 3. European discourses on genocide during the Cold War; 4. Bosnia and Herzegovina; 5. Rwanda; 6. Kosovo; 7. Darfur; 8. Is there a European way of responding to genocide?

Product details

• Authors: Karen E Smith, Karen E. Smith, Karen E. (London School of Economics and Po Smith, Karen E. (London School of Economics and Political Science) Smith, Smith Karen E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521133296
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13329-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law