The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda

1998
ISBN: 978-0-333-73203-8
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

The mass killings in Rwanda in 1994 shocked the world but the international response was ineffective. The end of the Cold War had created a moral climate supportive of humanitarian intervention and enforcement of the Genocide Convention, but it had not produced adequate legal and structural mechanisms to carry out such action. The book examines the failures of the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity, regional states and major world powers either to prevent or terminate the genocide and draws lessons for intervention in future.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klinghoffer, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I Mission Unaccomplished The Bubbling Cauldron PART II Return From Exile Troubled Times Toward the Precipice PART III Turning a Blind Eye Arms Over Plowshares Aftermath PART IV African Limitations French and Belgian Prevarication American Reticence PART V Parameters of Genocide Crime and Punishment PART VI Humanitarian Intervention A Comparative Perspective Sovereignty's Death Throes Index

Über Autor(innen)

ARTHUR J. KLINGHOFFER is a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships and a Nobel Fellowship, and is the author of ten books including seven on African Politics. Among his publications are and