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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817975503321

Autore

Stover Eric

Titolo

Hiding in Plain Sight : The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror / / Eric Stover, Victor Peskin, Alexa Koenig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-520-96276-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (512 p.)

Disciplina

341.6/9

Soggetti

War crime trials

War crimes investigation

International criminal courts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Promise of International Justice -- 2. To Nuremberg and Beyond -- 3. The Hunters and the Hunted -- 4. The Last Nazi War Criminals -- 5. Balkan Fugitives, International Prosecutors -- 6. Tracking Rwanda's Génocidaires -- 7. Hybrid Tribunals: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally -- 8. International Criminal Court: At the Mercy of States -- 9. The "War on Terror" and Its Legacy -- 10. Epilogue: The Future of Global Justice -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world's most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators after World War II, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and the Rwandan genocide, and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court and America's pursuit of suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, the book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies-both successful and unsuccessful-that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects. It is a story fraught with broken promises, backroom politics, ethical dilemmas, and daring escapades-all in the name of international justice and human rights. Hiding in Plain Sight is



a companion book to the public television documentary Dead Reckoning: Postwar Justice from World War II to The War on Terror. For more information about the documentary, visit www.pbs.org/wnet/dead-reckoning/. And for more information about the Human Rights Center, visit hrc.berkeley.edu.