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Book SynopsisAfter the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the UN resolved to prevent and punish the crime of genocide. The resulting UN Genocide Convention treaty, however, was weakened in the midst of Cold War tensions. Anton Weiss-Wendt reveals in detail how the political aims of the superpowers rendered the convention a weak instrument for addressing abuses against human rights.
Trade Review"An absorbing and important contribution to the history of the Cold War, as well as to international law and its political uses." —Peter H. Solomon Jr.,author of Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin"Shows that despite the greater intransigence—and ideologically doctrinaire approach—of the Soviet negotiators, the US and the West also contributed to the defanging of the Genocide Convention. The conclusion of this painstakingly detailed study: Soviet-American Cold War politics undermined the effectiveness of the Genocide Convention. — Choice"Weiss Wendt’s volume is one of the most thoroughly documented books on the negotiations and the misuses of the Genocide Convention in the 1940s and the 1950s." — Connections
