Stay the hand of vengeance : the politics of war crimes tribunals /
Author / Creator: | Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969- |
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Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000. |
Description: | 1 online resource (402 pages) : 1 map. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton studies in international history and politics Princeton studies in international history and politics. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12709613 |
Summary: | International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments sometimes display such striking idealism in the face of war crimes and atrocities abroad, and at other times cynically abandon the pursuit of international justice altogether? Why today does justice seem so slow to come for war crimes victims in the Balkans? In this book, Gary Bass offers an unprecedented look at the politics behind international war crimes tribunals, combining analysis with investigative reporting and a broad historical perspective. The Nuremberg trials powerfully demonstrated how effective war crimes tribunals can be. But there have been many other important tribunals that have not been as successful, and which have been largely left out of today's debates about international justice. This timely book brings them in, using primary documents to examine the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, the Armenian genocide, World War II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia. |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (402 pages) : 1 map. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-387) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781400851713 1400851718 069104922X 9780691049229 0691092788 9780691092782 |