Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity

ISBN-13: 9783319609935 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str.

Damien Rogers

Opis

It also posits that international prosecutors help wage a mostly silent and largely unacknowledged politico-cultural war fought for control over the institutions governing modernist international affairs.

Recenzje

"Examining prosecutors' work through the lens of critical thinking can be regarded as a novel and ambitious choice of methodology, and can certainly be of interest to discourse analysis scholars and specialists on international relations and conflict studies." (Galina Nelaeva and Elena Khabarova, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 32 (2), June 2019)

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction        

Part I: Prosecuting Mass Atrocity after World War II

2. International Military Tribunals

3. Indictment of German and Japanese War Leaders

4. Opening Statements at Nuremberg and Tokyo

Part II: Prosecuting Mass Atrocity after the Cold War

5. Ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunals 

6. Indictment of Yugoslav and Rwandan Troublemakers

7. Opening Statements at The Hague and Arusha  

Part III: Prosecuting Mass Atrocity during the War on Terror

8. International Criminal Court

9. New Generation of Prosecutors: Warrants, Summonses and Opening Statements 

           

10. Conclusion

O autorze

Damien Rogers is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.

Blurb

Damien Rogers is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice. It explores the efforts of three successive generations of international prosecutors, recognising the vital roles they play in the enforcement of international criminal law. By critically examining prosecutorial performance during the pre-trial and trial phases, the volume argues that these prosecutors are simultaneously political actors serving in the interests of economic liberalisation. It also posits that international prosecutors help wage a mostly silent and largely unacknowledged politico-cultural war fought for control over the institutions governing modernist international affairs. As the author contends, international prosecutors are thus best understood as agents not only of the law and politics, but also of a war fought by proponents of various utopian projects.