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In The Crime of Genocide Then and Now; Evolution of a Crime, the editors Pavel Šturma and Milan Lipovský submit an analysis of the readiness of the definition of genocide to the world of 21st century. In this original and thought-provoking collection, the Editors provide a multilayered study of the "crime of crimes". Adopted in 1948, and based on Raphael Lemkin's idea, the definition of genocide belongs to the cornerstones of international criminal law and justice. This volume focuses on, among other topics, the narrow scope of protected groups, wider domestic adaptations of the definition, denial of genocide, and current legal proceedings related to the crime in front of the ICJ and ICC. In this way its authors, based primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, analyse and discuss the readiness of the definition to meet the challenges of criminal justice in our changing world. The volume thus offers much fresh thinking on the international legal and legal policy complexities of genocide seventy years after the Genocide Convention's entry into force.

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. --- International Criminal Law. --- International Law. --- International Law: Regional Perspectives. --- Minority & Group Rights. --- Genocide (International law)

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"Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948, and extending to the present day, the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, China, United Kingdom, and France have put forth great effort to ensure that they will not be implicated in the crime of genocide. If this were to fail, they have also ensured that holding any of them accountable for genocide will be practically impossible. By situating genocide prevention in a system of territorial jurisdiction; by excluding protection for political groups and acts constituting cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention; by controlling when genocide is meaningfully named at the Security Council; and by pointing the responsibility to protect in directions away from any of the P-5, they have achieved what can only be described as practical impunity for genocide. The Politics of Genocide is the first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as "outlaw states.""--

Genocide (International law) --- Genocide intervention --- Responsibility to protect (International law) --- Political aspects. --- United Nations. --- United Nations, UN, Geneva Conventions, The Genocide Convention, legal definition of genocide, The Secretariat Draft, Ad Hoc Committee Draft, political analysis, United Nations analysis, Books on Law, World Law, the Holocaust, Jewish genocide, Jewish oppression, The Armenian Genocide, judicial systems, justice and law, international law, World War 2, The Final Solution, Adolf Hitler, International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice.