International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation

ISBN-13: 9780521872300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 296 str.

Victor Peskin

Opis

This book tells the compelling story of how the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda prod states implicated in atrocities to hand over their own leaders for trial. Without state cooperation, the United Nations would fail in its mission to help bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice and to rebuild and reconcile war-torn societies. The tribunals relative success in overcoming state resistance to international trials is the outcome of a political process that Victor Peskin uncovers and explains. This is the first in-depth, comparative study of state cooperation in the tribunals."

Recenzje

'Victor Peskin approaches his study of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and for Rwanda (ICTR) as a political scientist rather than as a lawyer, and as such has produced an invaluable guide to the politics of contemporary international justice. … This book fills a significant gap in the literature, and does so by telling a compelling story backed up by information gleaned from eight months of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews. Peskin has put in the graft and it shows: this is a work of narrative detail rather than a sweeping analysis of the tribunals from on high, revealing the controversies, conflict, public shaming and private negotiating that have shaped and constrained the pursuit of international justice through the tribunals.' International Affairs

Spis treści

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.