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War crimes and realpolitik : international justice from World War I to the 21st century / Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004Description: vii, 267 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1588262766
  • 9781588262769
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.6909 22
LOC classification:
  • K5301 .M36 2004
Contents:
1. Toward the Modern International Penal Process -- Pt. 1. The World Wars -- 2. A False Dawn: The Failure to Enforce International Justice After World War I -- 3. A New Dawn: The Birth of the Modern International Penal Process -- Pt. 2. The Cold War and the 1990s -- 4. Cold War: International Justice in the Shadow of Realpolitik -- 5. Crisis in the Balkans: Raising the Nuremberg Precedent -- 6. Rwanda: Portrait of a Reluctant International Community -- Pt. 3. Into the New Millennium -- 7. The International Criminal Court: Challenges and Concessions to the State -- 8. International Justice: Retrospect and Prospect.
Review: "From the very early stages in the development of international law, the nature of the state-centric international system has dictated that law play second fiddle to the hard realities of power politics. War Crimes and Realpolitik explores the evolution and operation of the international criminal justice system, highlighting the influences of politics." "Maogoto takes the reader behind the scenes of the conflict between justice and realpolitik. Showing how states, in furthering their political agendas, sometimes hinder the enforceability of international criminal law, he delineates the state interests that often control international legal norms and institutions and even manipulate public perceptions. Ranging from the period just after World War I to the recent establishment of the International Criminal Court, he provides a thorough exposition of the politics and processes of international penal institutions in the state-driven international system."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.

1. Toward the Modern International Penal Process -- Pt. 1. The World Wars -- 2. A False Dawn: The Failure to Enforce International Justice After World War I -- 3. A New Dawn: The Birth of the Modern International Penal Process -- Pt. 2. The Cold War and the 1990s -- 4. Cold War: International Justice in the Shadow of Realpolitik -- 5. Crisis in the Balkans: Raising the Nuremberg Precedent -- 6. Rwanda: Portrait of a Reluctant International Community -- Pt. 3. Into the New Millennium -- 7. The International Criminal Court: Challenges and Concessions to the State -- 8. International Justice: Retrospect and Prospect.

"From the very early stages in the development of international law, the nature of the state-centric international system has dictated that law play second fiddle to the hard realities of power politics. War Crimes and Realpolitik explores the evolution and operation of the international criminal justice system, highlighting the influences of politics." "Maogoto takes the reader behind the scenes of the conflict between justice and realpolitik. Showing how states, in furthering their political agendas, sometimes hinder the enforceability of international criminal law, he delineates the state interests that often control international legal norms and institutions and even manipulate public perceptions. Ranging from the period just after World War I to the recent establishment of the International Criminal Court, he provides a thorough exposition of the politics and processes of international penal institutions in the state-driven international system."--BOOK JACKET.

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