International justice and the International Criminal Court between sovereignty and the rule of law

Since the Nuremberg Trials of top Nazi leaders following the Second World War, international law has affirmed that no one, whatever their rank or office, is above accountability for their crimes. Yet the Cold War put geopolitical agendas ahead of effective action against war crimes and major human r...

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Tác giả chính: Broomhall, Bruce
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Được phát hành: Tokyo,New York United Nations University Press 2003
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300 |a xviii, 215 p. 
300 |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index 
520 |a Since the Nuremberg Trials of top Nazi leaders following the Second World War, international law has affirmed that no one, whatever their rank or office, is above accountability for their crimes. Yet the Cold War put geopolitical agendas ahead of effective action against war crimes and major human rights abuses, and no permanent system to address impunity was put in place. It was only with the Cold War's end that governments turned again to international institutions to address impunity, first by establishing International Criminal Tribunals to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and then by adopting the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. Domestic courts also took a role, notably through extradition proceedings against former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet in London, then in Belgium, Senegal, and elsewhere 
650 |a Jurisdiction (International law); Criminal jurisdiction; nternational crimes; International criminal courts 
700 |a Bruce Broomhall 
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