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A history of political trials : from Charles I to Saddam Hussein
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ISBN: 9781906165055 9781906165000 Year: 2008 Volume: 1 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main [etc.] Peter Lang

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The modern use of international tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and crimes against humanity is often considered a positive development. Many people think that the establishment of special courts to prosecute notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In A History of Political Trials, John Laughland takes a very different and controversial view. He shows that trials of heads of state are in fact not new, and that previous trials throughout history have themselves violated the law and due process. It is the historical account which carries the argument. By examining trials of heads of state and government throughout history - figures as different as Charles I, Louis XVI, Erich Honecker, and Saddam Hussein - Laughland shows that modern trials of heads of state have ugly historical precedents. In their different ways, all the trials he describes were marked by arbitrariness and injustice, and many were gross exercises in hypocrisy. Political trials, he finds, are only the continuation of war by other means. With short and easy chapters, but the fruit of formidable erudition and wide reading, this book will force the general reader to re-examine prevailing opinions of this subject.


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No easy fix : global responses to internal wars and crimes against humanity
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ISBN: 9780773533684 0773533680 Year: 2008 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,


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Traité de crimes internationaux : étude comparée d' un itinéraire judiciaire à risques pour les incriminés, des faits criminels en détails et de la restauration des victimes dans leurs droits
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ISBN: 9995112126 Year: 2008 Publisher: Kinshasa : Editions Universitaires Africaines,


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No easy fix : global responses to internal wars and crimes against humanity
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ISBN: 0773578021 128286470X 9786612864704 0773574808 9780773574809 6612864702 9780773533684 0773533680 9780773578029 Year: 2008 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual responsibility, they are not designed to deal with collective crimes against humanity and genocide, nor are they good instruments for dealing with the breakdown of societies. Bringing together her own field interviews, documentary material, and secondary sources, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions and criminal prosecutions. She examines three cases in detail: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia in its current forms of Bosnia and Serbia, considers their international context prior to and during internal wars, and argues that each case has to be understood in its own context and history - there is no common pattern and no easy fix that could mend broken societies after the wars. No Easy Fix is of interest to anyone concerned with how the international community deals with civil wars that involve serious crimes against humanity.


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Les règles et les institutions du droit international humanitaire à l'épreuve des conflits armés récents : 2007


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Rwanda : un génocide populaire
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ISBN: 9782845869868 284586986X Year: 2008 Volume: *127 Publisher: Paris: Karthala,


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Handboek internationaal strafrecht : schets van het Europese en internationale strafrecht
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ISBN: 9789013042764 9013042767 Year: 2008 Publisher: Waterloo : Kluwer,


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Chasseur de nazis
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ISBN: 9782749909431 Year: 2008 Publisher: Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) : M. Lafon,

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Efraïm Zuroff, fils de rabbin, raconte ici la traque qu'il a organisé pour que les derniers nazis passent en justice. En 2002, il déclenche une vaste campagne de recherches en Europe baptisée "Operation last chance". En 2007, cette campagne est menée en Amérique du Sud. Au total, Efraïm Zuroff a retrouvé 2.884 personnes suspectées d'être des nazis.


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Governing through globalised crime: futures for international criminal justice
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ISBN: 9781843923084 9781843923091 9781843925620 9781134007073 9781134007141 9781134007219 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cullompton Willan

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