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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rudolph, Christopher, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the light of justice
  • Power and principle from Nuremberg to The Hague
  • Nested interests and the institutional design of the International Criminal Court
  • Explaining the outliers : domestic politics and national interests
  • Power, principle, and pragmatism in prosecutorial strategy
  • Conclusion : between power and principle.