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When the world was faced with Nazi crimes, there already existed in the interwar era the terms of an 'offense against the law of nations' or 'delictis contra iuris gentium'. Raphael Lemkin believed that they do not convey the nature of this crime and that we did not only need to adopt the concept of crime against humanity, but also to make it precise and introduce a new one. Thus, he established a...
The rapid changes in international economic relations at the turn of the 21st century have brought about a significant increase of the role of economic foreign policy, and the term of economic diplomacy as its instrument is gaining new meaning, of a much broader scope than before.
As time goes by and further mass crimes of a genocidal character are being discovered, which were committed in Cambodia, Tibet, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Chechnya, it shows how far-reaching the concepts of Raphael Lemkin were, though they require more precision and a new conceptualisation. In order to take a step forward, we need a thorough and critical analysis of his life's work.
In 1946, representatives of the USSR supported the resolution of the UN General Assembly on genocide, convinced that it would be directed against the defeated Nazi adversary. It was also supported by other states of the Soviet bloc. But it is only five years later that Rafał Lemkin stated that the Soviet Union is the only state that might be charged with this crime.
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