With a new introduction by Samantha Power; lecturer in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide; winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. A title in The Lawbook Exchange series; Foundations of the Laws of War; General Editor Joseph Perkovich. In this pathbreaking study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin [1900-1959] coined the term "genocide" and defined it is a subject of international law. While the term has come to mean the extermination of a people; Lemkin used it to describe all programs that sought to increase "Aryan" birthrate while working to exterminate the social; cultural and economic independence of non-Germanic peoples. This study was an elaboration of ideas he first proposed in 1933 in his address to the Fifth International Conference for the Unification of Penal Law (1933); which argued that attacks on racial; religious and ethnic groups should be considered international crimes. Important for the prosecution of the Nazis; it helped to establish the framework for all subsequent efforts to punish crimes against humanity.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is a Great Book!By Timothy A. DaviesThis book could not be more CURRENT! Well researched; well written and very timely. For those who really want to make America great again.
