Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity

Damien Rogers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 244 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-86978-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

1. Introduction .- 2. International Military Tribunals .- 3. Indictment of German and Japanese War Leaders .- 4. Opening Statements at Nuremberg and Tokyo .- 5. Ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunals .- 6. Indictment of Yugoslav and Rwandan Troublemakers .- 7. Opening Statements at The Hague and Arusha .- 8. International Criminal Court .- 9. New Generation of Prosecutors: Warrants, Summonses and Opening Statements .- 10. Conclusion.

"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)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.8.2018
Reihe/Serie	Human Rights Interventions
Zusatzinfo	X, 244 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	339 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	criminal justice • Economic Liberalization • Foucault • Genocide • Humanitarian Law • international criminal law • International Military Tribunal • International Prosecutors • Legal Violations • Mass Atrocities • Nazi Germany • Yugoslavia
ISBN-10	3-319-86978-7 / 3319869787
ISBN-13	978-3-319-86978-0 / 9783319869780
Zustand	Neuware