The Problems of Genocide Advocacy The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression , by Dirk Moses, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 598 pp., £26.99, ISBN: 9781107103580

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Twitter). June 18, 2019. Available at https://twitter.com/AOC/status/11409905189749760002 Caroline Kelly. “Ocasio-Cortez compares migrant detention facilities to concentration camps.” CNN, June 18, 2019. Available at https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-migrants-detention/index.html3 The Problems of Genocide, 21.4 See, e.g., Sands. East West Street, 364: “I fear that the crime of genocide has distorted the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity, because the desire to be labeled a victim of genocide brings pressure on prosecutors to indict for that crime. For some, to be labeled a victim of genocide becomes ‘an essential component of national identity’ without contribution to the resolution of historical disputes or making mass killings less frequent.”5 The Problems of Genocide, 496.6 The Problems of Genocide, 27.7 The Problems of Genocide, 471.8 The Problems of Genocide, 43.9 Anatol Lieven. “Ukraine’s War Is Like World War I, Not World War II.” Foreign Policy. Oct. 27, 2022. Available at https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/27/ukraines-war-is-like-world-war-i-not-world-war-ii10 Jeffrey D. Sachs and William Schabas. “The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified. Project Syndicate. April 20, 2021. Available at https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-should-withdraw-unjustified-xinjiang-genocide-allegation-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-and-william-schabas-2021-04?referral=c5005111 Shoon Naing. “Myanmar begins rare court martial after probe into Rohingya atrocities.” Reuters. Nov. 26, 2019. Available at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-idCAKBN1Y019812 The Problems of Genocide, 44.13 “New Evidence Shows How Myanmar’s Military Planned the Rohingya Purge.” Reuters. Aug. 6, 2022. Available at https://www.voanews.com/a/new-evidence-shows-how-myanmar-s-military-planned-the-rohingya-purge/6688622.html14 The Problems of Genocide, 45515 The Problems of Genocide, 443.16 Conversations about genocide are complicated enormously by the fact that there is no natural move from individual criminality up to state responsibility for genocide. A state cannot be found criminally liable for genocide (or for anything else). And while it can be found civilly liable for the criminal actions of its agents, to date, no state has ever been held to be responsible for the commission of genocide.17 U.S. Dept. of State. “Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya in Burma.” Available at https://www.state.gov/burma-genocide/