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Peace without justice : hegemonic instability or international criminal law? / Sterling Johnson.

Van Pelt Library KZ6250 .J75 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Sterling, 1950-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
International Criminal Court.
International law--United States.
International law.
United States.
International courts.
United States--Foreign relations--1993-.
International relations.
Physical Description:
xxii, 244 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]
Contents:
1 The Dubious Promise 1
Explaining the No Decision 6
The No Vote: U.S. Sovereignty Threatened? 11
2 War Crime and Punishment: An Overview 19
3 International Justice and the League of Nations 27
The Treaty of Versailles 28
The London Charter 32
Truth Commissions 38
4 Regime Theory: The Transformation of Sovereignty 43
Security Regimes 43
The Iroquois League 44
The Concert of Europe 47
Economic Regimes 49
Hegemonic Instability 57
5 The Jurisdiction Debates 65
Jurisdiction over Terrorism 66
Jurisdiction over Minors 69
Individual Responsibility 71
Augusto Pinochet 71
Corporate Responsibility 73
Acts of Omission, Negligence and Conspiracy 74
Complementary Jurisdiction 75
The Security Council and the ICC 80
Compliance with ICC Judgements 83
Trigger Mechanisms: Opting-in and Opting-out 83
Non-retroactivity 88
6 The Rome Statute 93
Drugs, War and the ICC 93
The Structure of the Court 99
ICC Jurisdiction 99
Financing the ICC 104
Pragmatic Fiscal Considerations 108
7 The U.S. and International Criminal Prosecution 113
Federal vs State Authority 115
The Demjanjuk Case 117
8 The Death Penalty and International Law 125
The Soering Case 125
The Roach Case 131
The Santana Case 131
The Faulder Case 132
The Perception of U.S. Justice 136
9 Lockerbie: The Politics of International Criminal Justice 143
Scottish Rules of Evidence 145
Improperly Obtained Evidence 146
10 Hegemonic Justice: Extradition via Abduction 155
The Eichmann Case 157
The Abductions of Yunis and Machain 159
The Noriega Abduction 161
11 Constitutional Interpretation and International Law 167
Trial By Jury Requirements 169
Article III Objections to the ICC 174
Article III Jurisdiction 176
Non-Article III Tribunals? 178
12 The Yugoslav and Rwandan Tribunals 183
The Contrasting Tribunals 183
State Cooperation 185
Victim-Witness Protection 186
The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) 187
Ethnic Conflict or Land Genocide? 187
ICTY Trials 190
Problems Obtaining Evidence: The Blaskic Case 193
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 196
A Shared Complicity? 198
Ethnic Conflict or Genocide? 200
The Prospects for Rwandan Justice 203
13 The U.S. and Iraq: Invested in Instability? 215
Accusations of War Crimes in North Korea 215
Accusations of War Crimes in Vietnam 217
Accusations of War Crimes in Iraq 218
Appendix 1 Rome Statute Signatories as of February 1, 2001 233
Appendix 2 Rome Statute Ratifications as of July 1, 2002 237.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0754620751
OCLC:
49239757

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