Building the International Criminal Court

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-69472-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death; it is charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims; and it seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years. Other, temporary, single-purpose criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and special courts have come and gone, but the ICC is the only permanent inheritor of the Nuremberg legacy. In Building the International Criminal Court, Oberlin College Professor of Politics Ben Schiff analyzes the International Criminal Court, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schiff, Benjamin N.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. River of justice; 2. Learning from the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals; 3. The statute - justice v. sovereignty; 4. Building the court; 5. NGOs - advocates, assets, critics, and goads; 6. ICC-state relations; 7. The first 'situations'; Conclusions: the politics of the International Criminal Court; Websites for further and ongoing information; Bibliography and sources; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Schiff, Benjamin N.
Ben Schiff received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been teaching at Oberlin College since 1979 and has authored three major works on international politics, including the recent Refugees unto the Third Generation: U.N. Aid to Palestinians (1995). In 2005-6, Schiff was a Visiting Professor at Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies in The Hague, and he has published newspaper pieces and book reviews on international relations, foreign policy, and military topics.