Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives
Publishing Details
Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives
By (Author) Anton Weiss-Wendt
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
20th September 2018
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Genocide and ethnic cleansing
Legal history
345.0251
Physical Properties
Contains 2 hardbacks
Width 166mm, Height 246mm, Spine 58mm
1600g
Description
This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, the collection is an essential resource for students and scholars working in the field of comparative genocide studies. The selected records span the Cold War period and reflect on specific issues relevant to the Genocide Convention, as established at the time by the parties concerned. The types of documents reproduced in the collection include interoffice correspondence, memorandums, whitepapers, guidelines for national delegations, commissioned reports, draft letters, telegrams, meeting minutes, official and unofficial inquiries, formal statements, and newspaper and journal articles. On a classification curve, the featured records range from unrestricted to top secret. Taken in the aggregate, the documents reproduced in this collection suggest primacy of politics over humanitarian and/or legal considerations in the UN Genocide Convention.
Reviews
Through meticulous research, Anton Weiss-Wendt has assembled the most important documents covering the history of the UN Genocide Convention. This a landmark contribution to Genocide Studies and International Legal History, and an invaluable resource to students and scholars for generations to come. * Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor and Director of the Genocide Prevention Program, George Mason University, USA *
Author Bio
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. His recent publications include Racial Science in Hitler's Europe, 1939-1945 (2013) and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (2013).
