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Pious Words, Puny Deeds: The “International Community” and Mass Atrocities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

Rajan Menon
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , Fall 2009 , pp. 235 - 245
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2009

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2 Mahmood Mamdani accepts this figure after assessing contending tallies. SeeMamdani, Mahmood, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (New York: Pantheon, 2009), pp. 25–39.Google Scholar

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