International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans : virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation

Author(s)

• Peskin, Victor

Bibliographic Information

International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans : virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation

Victor Peskin

Cambridge University Press, c2008

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Today's international war crimes tribunals lack police powers, and therefore must prod and persuade defiant states to co-operate in the arrest and prosecution of their own political and military leaders. Victor Peskin's comparative study traces the development of the capacity to build the political authority necessary to exact compliance from states implicated in war crimes and genocide in the cases of the International War Crimes Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Drawing on 300 in-depth interviews with tribunal officials, Balkan and Rwandan politicians, and Western diplomats, Peskin uncovers the politicized, protracted, and largely behind-the-scenes tribunal-state struggle over co-operation.

Table of Contents

• Part I. Introduction: 1. International war crimes tribunals and the politics of state cooperation
• Part II. The Balkans: Strategies of Noncompliance and Instruments of Pressure: 2. Slobodan Milosevic and the politics of state cooperation
• 3. International justice and Serbia's troubled democratic transition
• 4. Franjo Tudman and the politics of international justice
• 5. The politics of state cooperation in Croatia's democratic era
• Part III. Rwanda: Virtual Trials, International Justice, and the Politics of Shame: 6. The struggle to create the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• 7. 'Trials of cooperation' and the battles for Karamira and Barayagwiza
• 8. Investigating Rwandan patriotic front atrocities and the politics of bearing witness
• 9. Victor's justice revisited: the prosecutor vs. Kagame
• Part IV. Conclusion: 10. The present and future of international criminal justice.

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• NCID: BA86811237
• ISBN:
  • 9780521872300
• LCCN: 2007026194
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [UK] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 272 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : K5001
  • DC22 : 341.6/9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criminal justice, Administration of -- International cooperation
  • LCSH : International criminal courts
  • LCSH : Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006
  • LCSH : Serbia -- Politics and government
  • LCSH : Tuđman, Franjo
  • LCSH : Croatia -- Politics and government
  • LCSH : International Tribunal for Rwanda
  • LCSH : Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities