Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity

• Main Author: Rogers, Damien (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Human Rights Interventions
• Subjects: Peace.; International relations.; International criminal law.; Transnational crime.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Conflict Studies.; International Relations Theory.; International Criminal Law .; Transnational Crime.; Criminal Justice.; Human Rights and Crime .

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

Table of Contents:

• 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. .