The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression by A. Dirk Moses -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Coverpage Half title Series page Title page Imprints page Contents Preface Introduction

The Flawed Solution of Genocide Ethnicizing and Depoliticizing Genocide

Genocide as a Hate Crime The “Crime of Crimes”

The Language of Transgression Writing the History of a Concept Permanent Security and Civilian Destruction

Illiberal Permanent Security Liberal Permanent Security The Criminality of Permanent Security

This Book

Part I The Language of Transgression

1 The Language of Transgression, 1500s to 1890s

Introduction Empire and Critique Empire, Commerce, Corruption Humanitarianism and Slavery The Protection of Small Nations and “Native” Peoples King Leopold II’s Congo Conclusion

2 The Language of Transgression, 1890s to 1930s

Warfare and Civilization World War I and the Language of Transgression

War Crimes

The League of Nations and the Language of Transgression

International Conscience and the Public Mind Free and Unfree Labor Depoliticizing the Language of Transgression: The Question of Violence and Refugees

The Language of Transgression

3 Raphael Lemkin and the Protection of Small Nations

From Zionism to the Protection of “Small Nations” Barbarism, Vandalism, and the Political

Terrorism and Political Crimes Vandalism and Barbarism

Conclusion: Blindspots

4 The Many Types of Destruction

Extending the Limits of International Law Mitigated Knowledge The Many Types of Destruction The Institute of Jewish Affairs and the Definition of War Crimes Conclusion

5 Inventing Genocide in the 1940s

Before “Genocide” Lemkin’s Invention The Nuremberg Disappointment Excluding Permanent Security from the Genocide Convention

Excluding Population Expulsion and Cultural Genocide A Nonpolitical Crime

Otto Ohlendorf, Aerial Bombing, and the Rescue of Military Necessity Conclusion

Part II Permanent Security

6 Permanent Security in History

Illiberal Permanent Security I: Imperial Conquest and Exploitation Illiberal Permanent Security II: Subaltern Genocide Liberal Permanent Security: Settler Colonialism The Soviet Union Elements of Permanent Security

7 The Nazi Empire as Illiberal Permanent Security

Introduction Imperial Imaginary Hitler’s Imperial History of Permanent Security

Redemptive Imperialism

Why the Jewish Enemy?

“International Jewry” Jews in Germany “Judeo-Bolshevism” and Political Paranoia

Nazi Empire and Illiberal Permanent Security Conclusion

8 Human Rights, Population “Transfer,” and the Foundation of the Postwar Order

Partitions, Minorities, Expulsions as Liberal Permanent Security Human Rights, Partition, and “Transfer” The Interwar Debate on the “Humanity” of Transfer Human Rights and Transfer Conclusion

9 Imagining Nation-Security in South Asia and Palestine

India and Interwar Europe Minorities: Hostages or Transfer? Muslim Zion? Palestine, Israel, and Minorities

Part III The Language of Transgression, Permanent Security, and Holocaust Memory

10 Lemkin, Arendt, Vietnam, and Liberal Permanent Security

Raphael Lemkin: Affixing the Holocaust Archetype Hannah Arendt: Depoliticizing the Holocaust and Defending the West

The Uniqueness of the Holocaust

Vietnam, Genocide, and the Critique of Liberal Permanent Security

Genocide in Vietnam? The Nuremberg Legacy and Liberal Permanent Security

Liberal Permanent Security Fights Back

11 Genocide Studies and the Repression of the Political

Biafra

Founding Genocide Studies

Excluding Permanent Security Civil War or Genocide?

Armenian Rebellion or Armenian Genocide? Darfur

Holocaust Analogies After Genocide

12 Holocaust Memory, Exemplary Victims, and Permanent Security Today

The Holocaust as Hate Crime After the Holocaust: A Single Archetype, an Ideal Victim Scapegoating as Depoliticization A New Civilizing Mission Holocaust Education as Liberal Permanent Security Empire and Civilization The “Supreme” (Humanitarian) Emergency Endless Occupation

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