Impediments to the prevention and intervention of genocide
By: Samuel Totten, editor
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781412849432
Subjects: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Genocide; International cooperation; Genocide intervention; Political aspects; Genocide (International law); Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: why no one came / by Major Brent Beardsley, retired; title: Introduction / by Samuel Totten; title: Realpolitik: the major impediment to the prevention and intervention of genocide / by Paul R. Bartrop and Samuel Totten; title: Lack of political will / by Kenneth Campbell; title: Denial of ongoing atrocities as a rationale for not attempting to prevent or intervene / by Henry Theriault; title: The wording and interpretation of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: an ongoing impediment / Samuel Totten; title: Data limitations as an impediment to genocide intervention / by Cyanne E. Loyle and Christian Davenport; title: Aspects and components of the United Nations that constitute impediments to the prevention and intervention of genocide / by Samuel Totten; title: The impact of the media on genocide intervention: a prod, an impediment or both? / by Isabelle Macgregor; title: The international arms trade and the prevention of genocide: the law and practice of arming genocidal governments / by Hannibal Travis; title: Do criminal trials prevent genocide? A critical analysis / by Maureen S. Hiebert; title: "Paved with good intentions": attempts to design mechanisms to prevent genocide in the twenty first century and why they have not succeeded / by Herbert Hirsch.