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Title: Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur
Author: MAYROZ EYAL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/11/2019
Imprint: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $60.00
Publishing status: Active
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. Laid bare are the processes that turned the promise of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the citizenry in decision making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take U.S. foreign policy?
Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
ISBN: 9781978807037
Dimension: 229mm X 152mm
Pages: 224