TY - GEN digital ID - 131679731 TI - Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity PY - 2018 SN - 9783319609942 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Social problems KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - International law KW - Human rights KW - Criminology. Victimology KW - Polemology KW - mensenrechten KW - criminologie KW - criminaliteit KW - internationaal recht KW - polemologie KW - vrede KW - internationale betrekkingen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131679731 AB - 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, recognising the vital roles they play in the enforcement of international criminal law. By critically examining prosecutorial performance during the pre-trial and trial phases, the volume argues that these prosecutors are simultaneously political actors serving in the interests of economic liberalisation. It also posits that international prosecutors help wage a mostly silent and largely unacknowledged politico-cultural war fought for control over the institutions governing modernist international affairs. As the author contends, international prosecutors are thus best understood as agents not only of the law and politics, but also of a war fought by proponents of various utopian projects. ER -