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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Description: “Never again!” This was the rallying cry, seemingly universal and unanimous, among liberal nation-states as they formed the United Nations (UN) in 1945 and later signed the UN Declaration on Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. Emerging from the ashes of a global war that took some 60 million lives, and after witnessing the atrocities of Nazi Germany, a worldwide community appeared resolute in its commitment to not only condemn, but to also strive to prevent future “crimes against humanity.”In The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford Universi...