Victor Peskin

International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans

Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how the UN International Criminal Court pressures states to hand over their own leaders for trial.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780521129121
• ISBN-10: 0521129125
• Artikelnr.: 26571719

Autorenporträt

Victor Peskin received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an Assistant Professor in The School of Global Studies at Arizona State University. His scholarly and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations, comparative politics, and human rights. His research examines the politics of the contemporary international criminal tribunals and their contentious relationship with states implicated in war crimes and genocide. His research has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He has published articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Legal Affairs, International Peacekeeping, the Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. International war crimes tribunals and the
politics of state cooperation; Part II. The Balkans: Strategies of
Noncompliance and Instruments of Pressure: 2. Slobodan Milosevic and the
politics of state cooperation; 3. International justice and Serbia's
troubled democratic transition; 4. Franjo Tudman and the politics of
international justice; 5. The politics of state cooperation in Croatia's
democratic era; Part III. Rwanda: Virtual Trials, International Justice,
and the Politics of Shame: 6. The struggle to create the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; 7. 'Trials of cooperation' and the battles
for Karamira and Barayagwiza; 8. Investigating Rwandan patriotic front
atrocities and the politics of bearing witness; 9. Victor's justice
revisited: the prosecutor vs. Kagame; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. The present
and future of international criminal justice.