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Review of the book "A World Divided. The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States" by Eric D. Weitz
No full textReview of the book A World Divided. The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States, by Eric D. Weitz. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-691-14544-0, 544 pp.Review of the book "A World Divided. The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States" by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-691-14544-0, 544. The author gratefully acknowledges the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for supporting this publication through research grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018
Keynote Lecture: The Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Study of Human Rights
No full textKeynote Lecture: Eric Weitz (City College of New York
The Soviet Union and the Creation of the International Human Rights System
No full textThe following comments draw from the authors Eric D. Weitz´s upcoming book : A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of the Nation-State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2019)
Omer Bartov, Eric D. Weitz, Shatterzone of Empires
No full textThe title Shatterzone of Empires announces from the start the approach Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz chose. The “shatterzone” of the four empires, which broke up after the First World War into modern nation states, is a notion of space. Spread over a number of scales – empires or States, regions (Galicia, Upper Silesia, Carpathian Ruthenia), towns (Vilnius, Krakow), small towns (Buczacs), the space of the borderlands should be understood according to the various meanings of the term: borderla..
Omer Bartov, Eric D. Weitz, Shatterzone of Empires
No full textLe titre Shatterzone of Empires annonce d’emblée l’approche choisie par Omer Bartov et Eric D. Weitz : la « zone de brisure » des quatre empires, dont les éclats formeront à l’issue de la Première Guerre mondiale les États-nations modernes, est une notion spatiale. Déployé sur plusieurs échelles – empires ou États, régions (Galicie, Haute-Silésie, Ruthénie carpatique), villes (Vilnius, Cracovie), bourgades (Buczacz), l’espace des borderlands devra être compris selon les différentes acceptions..
[Video] Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Eric Weitz - The Paris System International Order through ethnic cleansing
No full textEric D. Weitz is Dean of Humanities and Arts and Professor of History at the City College of New York. Trained in modern European and German history, his work in recent years has extended to the history and politics of international human rights and crimes against humanity. Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Eric Weitz - The Paris System International Order through ethnic cleansing from Max Weber Stiftung on Vimeo. Abstrac
Weitz Eric D., Creating German Communism (1890-1990). From Populist Protests to Socialist State
No full textSick Klaus-Peter. Weitz Eric D., Creating German Communism (1890-1990). From Populist Protests to Socialist State. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°57, janvier-mars 1998. pp. 179-181
Omer Bartov et Eric D. Weitz : Shatterzone of Empires [séminaire ENS de Lyon]
No full text[ndlr] Annonce de séminaire. Séminaire "L'ordinaire de la guerre. Guerres et violences extrêmes sous le regard des sciences sociales” ENS de Lyon André Loez et Sylvain Bertschy présentation de l'ouvrage dirigé par Omer Bartov et Eric D. Weitz Shatterzone of Empires Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (Presses de l'université d'Indiana, 2013) Mardi 13 mai 2014 de 14h à 17h, en salle F001. Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of in..
Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz, eds. Shatterzones of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands.
No full textOmer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz, eds. Shatterzones of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. xii, 528 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Index. $37.00, paper
A century of genocide utopias of race and nation
No full textWhy did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented? Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century--and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly. Weitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide and traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. He demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense crisis, these states targeted certain national and racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of these "enemies" would enable the dominant group to flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors. This book offers some of the most absorbing accounts ever written of the population purges forever associated with the names Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Milosevic. A controversial and richly textured comparison of these four modern cases, it identifies the social and political forces that produce genocide
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