Research Catalog

Title

Reluctant interveners : America's failed responses to genocide from Bosnia to Darfur / Eyal Mayroz.

Author

Mayroz, Eyal, 1964-

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

x, 217 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Why do we allow our governments to get away with "bystanding" to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway "others" into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of "never again" to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?"--

Series Statement

Genocide, political violence, human rights series

Uniform Title

Genocide, political violence, human rights series.

Subject

• Since 1989
• Genocide intervention > Government policy > United States
• Humanitarian intervention > United States
• Diplomatic relations
• Humanitarian intervention
• United States > Foreign relations > 1989-
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-206) and index.

Contents

America's relationship with genocide -- A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide? -- Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide -- Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour -- America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century -- Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions.

Call Number

Sc E 20-526

ISBN

• 197880704X
• 9781978807044
• 9781978807044 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019006129
• 40029538614

OCLC

1089274702

Author

Mayroz, Eyal, 1964- author.

Title

Reluctant interveners : America's failed responses to genocide from Bosnia to Darfur / Eyal Mayroz.

Publisher

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Genocide, political violence, human rights series

Genocide, political violence, human rights series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-206) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY.

Chronological Term

Since 1989

Other Standard Identifier

40029538614

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-526