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Since the adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948 and through the present day, the United Nations' P-5 have ensured that holding any of them accountable for genocide would be practically impossible.
The Politics of Genocide is the first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as "outlaw states."
List of contents
Introduction: Genocide and State Impunity
1. Territorializing Prevention of Genocide
2. Redefining the Crime of Genocide for Reasons of State
3. The ICJ as Enabler of State Impunity for Genocide
4. The P-5 and Discretionary Non-Application of the Genocide Convention
5. The Responsibility to Protect and P-5 Impunity
Conclusion: The Persistent Outlaw, Perpetual Impunity, and the Field of Genocide Studies
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN is a senior professorial lecturer in human rights at the American University School of International Service in Washington, DC. He is the author of
The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship and editor of
Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations.
Summary
The first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as ‘outlaw states’.
