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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458208503321

Autore

Peskin Victor <1967->

Titolo

International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans : virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation / / Victor Peskin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-18064-3

1-281-24345-0

9786611243456

0-511-79058-9

0-511-37802-5

0-511-37714-2

0-511-37620-0

0-511-37467-4

0-511-37891-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

341.6/9

Soggetti

Criminal justice, Administration of - International cooperation

International criminal courts

Serbia Politics and government

Croatia Politics and government

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

International war crimes tribunals and the politics of state cooperation -- Slobodan Milošević and the politics of state cooperation -- International justice and Serbia's troubled democratic transition -- Franjo Tuđman and the politics of international justice -- The politics of state cooperation in Croatia's democratic era -- Rwanda virtual trials, international justice, and the politics of shame -- The struggle to create the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda -- "Trials of cooperation" and the battles for Karamira and Barayagwiza -- Investigating Rwandan patriotic front atrocities and the politics of bearing witness -- Victor's justice revisited : the prosecutor vs. Kagame



-- Thepresent and future of international criminal justice.

Sommario/riassunto

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.