Power and principle the politics of international criminal courts

On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Other Authors: Rudolph, Christopher, 1966- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press 2017.
Edition:1st ed
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1. Power and Principle from Nuremberg to The Hague
  • 2. Nested Interests and the Institutional Design of the International Criminal Court
  • 3. Explaining the Outliers
  • 4. Power, Principle, and Pragmatism in Prosecutorial Strategy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index