{"product_id":"never-again-9780674275225","title":"Never Again","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do Germans mean when they say “never again”? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda, showing how these events transformed the meaning of the Holocaust in Germany, inspired partial remilitarization, and changed the country’s relationship to refugees fleeing war-torn regions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious, original and richly evidenced…Port offers an innovative contribution in the atrophied terrain of ‘memory studies.’ \u003ci\u003eNever Again\u003c\/i\u003e implies that Walter Benjamin’s ‘Angel of History’ is, at last, turning away from sentimental memorials and sentimental solemnity—and looking forward. -- Christopher Hale * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNever Again\u003c\/i\u003e thoroughly examines the German response to three genocides that took place elsewhere in the world after the Second World War—in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda—and considers, in particular, the role that the Nazi past and the Holocaust played in debates about them. -- Hans Kundnani * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003ePort’s meticulously researched book is a well-written account of Germans struggling to do the right thing—whether on the political or personal level—against the backdrop of their own history…An important contribution. -- Gisela Dachs * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eA thrilling accomplishment. Ingeniously conceived and intrepidly executed, \u003ci\u003eNever Again\u003c\/i\u003e explores how German mastery of the Holocaust past proceeded through reflection on foreign atrocities, first in the postcolonial world and then in Europe itself. This is the most important study of memory, politics, and the ongoing construction of public norms written in a long time. -- Samuel Moyn, author of \u003ci\u003eHumane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGermans, in the communist East, the democratic West, and the reunified nation, cannot deal with atrocities in other countries without being haunted by their own dark history. How they have negotiated these dangerous political challenges, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, is the subject of Port’s fascinating, elegant, subtle, and always fair-minded book. -- Ian Buruma, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating, carefully crafted look at how the powerful and dynamic factor of German memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust affected German foreign policy on the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Port’s nuanced and suggestive analysis also contributes in important ways to our understanding of the making of Berlin’s zigzag policies on Ukraine today. -- Norman M. Naimark, author of \u003ci\u003eStalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis deeply researched book tells the story of how, by embracing human rights and engaging in humanitarian actions, Germany rejoined ‘the community of nations as a peaceful member.’ Port illuminates the highly topical question of how Germany’s past both shapes and constrains its responses to contemporary bloodshed. -- M. E. Sarotte, author of \u003ci\u003eNot One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly original work, sensitive both to domestic debates and to far broader transnational and international considerations. By exploring how a concern with their own genocidal past informed German reactions to later genocides, Port illuminates not only the German responses to events elsewhere in the world but also the ways in which, in an increasingly mobile and globalizing society, German society was and is itself changing. -- Mary Fulbrook, author of \u003ci\u003eReckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant new perspective on postwar German history. Even with hundreds of books written on attempts to cope with the Nazi past, the political consequences of shifting memory culture have seldom been discussed. In exploring how the Holocaust became an argument in German foreign policy, humanitarian aid, and military interventions, Port offers a wealth of insight—not only on Germany, but also on its global context. -- Frank Bösch, author of \u003ci\u003eMass Media and Historical Change: Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFascinating reading. With Russia’s war on Ukraine, Germany faces its biggest crisis yet in its understanding of how the Holocaust and World War II should influence its military policy. Port’s timely book shows that this is not the first time Germans grappled with this issue. Examining earlier debates about the proper response to atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda, \u003ci\u003eNever Again\u003c\/i\u003e provides essential historical context for the contemporary dilemma of how to address Russian aggression. -- Hope M. Harrison, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA splendid…brilliant study… [Port] builds a bridge between the emergence of a Holocaust-related culture of remembrance and a history of humanitarianism before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His book also addresses the contemporary problem of how society deals with mass violence in distant regions. Not least due to recent global political developments, this requires more than ever a competent classification by the specialist disciplines. -- Annette Weinke * Süddeutsche Zeitung *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403576025431,"sku":"9780674275225","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674275225.jpg?v=1730483881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/never-again-9780674275225","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}