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Anti-Genocide Building an American Movement to Prevent Genocide
Herbert Hirsch
Book Code: C7676
ISBN: 0-275-97676-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97676-7
232 pages, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Hirsch provides a good introduction to several aspects of genocide and proposes a new "ethic" on which to build an American antigenocide movement....Highly recommended. General readers, undergraduates, graduates, and technical program students.
    —Choice     November 2003
  • [A] valuable contribution to our understanding of how to eradicate genocide. Well written with wonderful insight and often biting wit, Anti-Genocide is sure to provoke thoughtful discussion and, let's hope, lasting change.
    —Holocaust and Genocide Studies     .
  • [H]irsch is a reliable guide and his study is an excellent overview of a timely and complicated subject.
    —The International History Review     June 2004
Description: This book is a frank and hopeful meditation on the recurring tragedy of genocide that should be read by anybody who cares about its prevention. Hirsch argues if we are to successfully confront, prevent, or control the most egregious aspects of genocidal violence, we must create containing political institutions and social mechanisms. But ultimately human nature must change to temper the worst excesses of genocidal violence, given its long and intractable historical presence. Hirsch looks hard at complex realities and proposes how to build a politics of prevention. Focusing on the United States, a political movement must be built that supports the politics of prevention in the international realm. Long-term prevention depends on changing how humans view each other, though. Creating a new ethic of life-enhancing behavior based on the ideology of universal human rights that is passed on from generation to generation via the process of political socialization ultimately is our best hope of preventing future genocides. This book begins with the fact that there is apparently nothing historically unique about human beings killing one another in relatively large numbers. Genocide appears to be a phenomenon that has been a part of human history since we began to record our worst excesses. Certainly it has been in the forefront of human consciousness as the last century came to its bloody conclusion. It is not an intractable problem. A mass movement to prevent genocide can be built, and once created it should pressure the federal government to focus its foreign policy on the prevention of genocide.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Genocide, Politics, and Human Behavior
  • Genocide and Political Movements
  • Building a Movement to Stop Genocide
  • Genocide and Public Opinion: A Comparison of the Policy Making Elite and the General Public
  • Putting Pressure on the United States Political Institutions
  • Guilty Secrets: Genocide and the Failure of American Foreign Policy During the Clinton and Bush Administrations
  • The Failure of Prevention: Bosnia
  • A Second Failure of Prevention: The Rwandan Genocide
  • Lessons from the Late 20th Century and Early 21st Centuries: Kosovo, Clinton, and Bush
  • Genocide and the Politics of Prevention
  • A Foreign Policy to Prevent Genocide: The Practicality of Morality
  • United States Policy in the New Century
  • Reflections on "Ethics," "Morality," and "Responsibility"
  • Inculcating an Ethic to Prevent Genocide
  • Conclusion: A Politics to Prevent Genocide
LC Card Number: 2002067298
LCC Class: HV6322
Dewey Class: 364
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