The Crime of Aggression (eBook)

The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats

Noah Weisbord (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19135-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Noah Weisbord is associate professor of law at Queen's University in Canada and served on the International Criminal Court's working group that drafted the crime of aggression. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instead of collective state responsibility, our leaders are now personally subject to indictment for crimes of aggression, from invasions and preemptions to drone strikes and cyberattacks. The Crime of Aggression is Noah Weisbord's riveting insider's account of the high-stakes legal fight to enact this historic legislation and hold politicians accountable for the wars they start.Weisbord, a key drafter of the law for the International Criminal Court, takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential legal dramas in modern international diplomacy. Drawing on in-depth interviews and his own invaluable insights, he sheds critical light on the motivations of the prosecutors, diplomats, and military strategists who championed the fledgling prohibition on unjust war-and those who tried to sink it. He untangles the complex history behind the measure, tracing how the crime of aggression was born at the Nuremberg trials only to fall dormant during the Cold War, and he draws lessons from such pivotal events as the collapse of the League of Nations, the rise of the United Nations, September 11, and the war on terror.The power to try leaders for unjust war holds untold promise for the international order, but also great risk. In this incisive and vitally important book, Weisbord explains how judges in such cases can balance the imperatives of justice and peace, and how the fair prosecution of aggression can humanize modern statecraft.

Autor

Noah Weisbord is associate professor of law at Queen’s University in Canada and served as an expert on the working group charged by the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of State Parties with drafting the crime of aggression. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi • Accountability • Act of Aggression • Adolf Hitler • Al-Qaeda • Ambiguity (law) • Amendment • Arrest warrant • assassination • attempt • authorization • barack obama • Blockade • Council on Foreign Relations • Crime • Crime against peace • Crime of Aggression • Customary international law • David Scheffer • declaration of war • defendant • De Minimis • Disarmament • edict • ethnic cleansing • George W. Bush • Great Power • Henry Kissinger • humanitarian intervention • Human Rights Watch • Impeachment • impunity • indictment • Insurgency • International Court of Justice • International Criminal Court • international criminal law • International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia • International Law • International Relations • invasion of Kuwait • Iraq War • John F. Kennedy • Judicial interpretation • Jurisdiction • Jus ad bellum • Just War Theory • Law enforcement • Lawfare • law of war • lawyer • League of Nations • Legal Advisor (Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants) • Lyndon B. Johnson • Member State • mercenary • Military Operation • Nazi Germany • nuclear weapon • Nuremberg • Nuremberg Charter • Nuremberg principles • Nuremberg Trials • Omar al-Bashir • Peace Enforcement • Peacekeeping • Politician • Politics • Precedent • President of the United States • Pretext • Prosecutor • Reprisal • Responsibility to Protect • Right of self-defense • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court • Rule of Law • Rwanda • Saddam Hussein • Samantha Power • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Statute • Subsequent Nuremberg Trials • Syrian Civil War • Territorial integrity • terrorism • Torture • Treaty • United Nations Security Council • United States Department of State • Vladimir Putin • war • War Crime • warfare • war of aggression • weapon of mass destruction • Westphalian Sovereignty • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19135-2 / 0691191352
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19135-5 / 9780691191355