Overview
- Offers an entirely new way of comprehending the conduct of those whose job it is to prosecute the most serious of international crimes
- Argues that law is a form of politics, and that both ICL enforcement and the politics of economic liberalisation are a means of waging politico-cultural war
- Highlights the complicity between the production of scholarly knowledge in academia and the support for the international prosecutor’s work
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prosecuting Mass Atrocity After the Second World War
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Prosecuting Mass Atrocity After the Cold War
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Prosecuting Mass Atrocity During the War on Terror
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Examining prosecutors’ work through the lens of critical thinking can be regarded as a novel and ambitious choice of methodology, and can certainly be of interest to discourse analysis scholars and specialists on international relations and conflict studies.” (Galina Nelaeva and Elena Khabarova, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 32 (2), June 2019)
“In Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity Damien Rogers makes a timely and valuable contribution to the growing critical literature on international criminal law by challenging assumptions about the virtuous and apolitical role of the international prosecutor in the prosecution of atrocity crimes.” (Neil Boister, Professor of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
“This book is a massive synthesis of research on the meaning and conduct of international justice and presents meticulous evidence for its politicization. With a clearly stated argument, it gives a fresh view on international justice and is important reading for historians, social scientists, lawyers and human rights activists alike.” (Mats Deland, Associate Professor in History, Södertörn University College, Sweden)
“This is an innovative and critical study in the area of international criminal justice. Through its focus on the prosecutor this book adds new insights and opens up new venuesfor further research into the politics of law.” (W.G. Werner, Professor of International Law and Comparative Law, Vrije Universtitet Amsterdam, Netherlands)
“This book—an engagement with the strategic-conceptual work accomplished by international prosecutors in support of economic liberalisation—is a serious-minded, meticulous and politically-insurgent contribution to the critique of international criminal law.” (Gerry Simpson, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity
Authors: Damien Rogers
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60994-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60993-5Published: 11 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86978-0Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60994-2Published: 30 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: Conflict Studies, International Relations Theory, International Criminal Law , Transnational Crime, Criminal Justice, Human Rights and Crime