| Description |
xxiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 series on Eastern Europe |
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Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 series on Eastern Europe.
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| Contents |
A time of alibis -- Guerrilla diplomacy : America versus Europe -- A tribunal nearly stillborn -- A court put to the test -- Tribunal of the word -- The quest for independence -- The international court on the spot -- The interminable trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- A court standing above it all |
| Summary |
Can we achieve justice during war? Should law substitute for realpolitik? Can an international court act against the global community that created it? "Justice in a Time of War" is a translation from the French of the first complete, behind-the-scenes story of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, from its proposal by Balkan journalist Mirko Klarin through recent developments in the trial of Slobodan Miloševic. It is also a meditation on the conflicting intersection of law and politics in achieving justice and peace. With insider interviews filling out every scene, Hazan tells a chaotic story of war that raged while the Western powers cobbled together a tribunal in order to avoid actual intervention. The international lawyers and judges for this rump world court started with nothing-but they ultimately established the tribunal as an unavoidable actor in the Balkans. The West had created the Tribunal in 1993, hoping to threaten international criminals with indictment and thereby force an untenable peace. In 1999, the Tribunal suddenly became useful to NATO countries as a means by which to criminalize Miloševic's regime and to justify military intervention in Kosovo and in Serbia. Ultimately, this hastened the end of Miloševic's rule and led the way to history's first war crimes trial of a former president by an international tribunal. Hazan's account of the Tribunal's formation and evolution questions the contradictory policies of the Western powers and illuminates a cautionary tale for the reader: realizing ideals in a world enamored of realpolitik is a difficult and often haphazard activity |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 -- History.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
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International criminal courts -- History.
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Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994-
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2004007211 |
| ISBN |
1585443778 cloth alkaline paper |
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1585444111 paperback alkaline paper |
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