Power and principle : the politics of international criminal courts / Christopher Rudolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudolph, Christopher, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Criminal Court.

International criminal courts--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 2017

Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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. Such events are why human rights activists have long pressed for institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute some of the world's most severe crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.While proponents extol the creation of the ICC as a transformative victory for principles of international humanitarian law, critics have often characterized it as either irrelevant or dangerous in a world dominated by power politics. Christopher Rudolph argues in Power and Principle that both perspectives are extreme. In contrast to prevailing scholarship, he shows how the interplay between power politics and international humanitarian law have shaped the institutional development of international criminal courts from Nuremberg to the ICC. Rudolph identifies the factors that drove the creation of international criminal courts, explains the politics behind their institutional design, and investigates the behavior of the ICC. Through the development and empirical testing of several theoretical frameworks, Power and Principle helps us better understand the factors that resulted in the emergence of international criminal courts and helps us determine the broader implications of their presence in society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

1. Power and Principle from Nuremberg to The Hague

2. Nested Interests and the Institutional Design of the International Criminal Court

3. Explaining the Outliers

4. Power, Principle, and Pragmatism in Prosecutorial Strategy

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501708411

1501708414

9781501708428

1501708422

OCLC:

992245439

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access