1st Edition
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945
Introduction. 1: Expansive Empire and Political Tyranny 2: Theorizing Ethnonationalist Violence 3: The Large Country Syndrome 4: Genocide and the Security Council 5: Ethnonationalist Entrepreneurship within the U.N. Framework 6: A New Cosmopolitical Order? Conclusion.
Biography
Hannibal Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cultural and intellectual property, international and comparative law, and human rights law. He serves as Associate Professor of Law and the Interim Associate Dean for Information Resources and Director of the Law Library at Florida International University College of Law. He joined FIU after several years practicing law in California and New York. He has also served as Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, and as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford.
"With a global gaze and cosmopolitan sensibility, Hannibal Travis identifies the genocidal conjunctures of the postwar world in the instability of over-sized polities and their tendency to interfere destructively in the affairs of countries whose resources they crave. As a creature of this system, and especially the United Nations Security Council, the UN is indicted for its woeful record of prevention and punishment of genocide. Travis presents a bleak picture of our time whose only mitigation is the thin reed of the law. Sober yet hopeful, this book is a major achievement."
—A. Dirk Moses, European University Institute
"You have to love as well as be impressed with Travis’ combination of good old-fashioned high quality scholarship with a love of human life, human rights, and decency that reach out to and inspire the reader. Travis follows in the footsteps of the great Leo Kuper’s The Prevention of Genocide (1985). He tells the truths of how ethnonationalism and imperialism over and over again prove stronger than a law of nations so long as a robust international criminal tribunal and a robust UN army have not come in to being. A highly recommended and memorable study."
—Israel W. Charny, Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem
