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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright page
Tables and Figures
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Evolution and Purpose of International Criminal Justice
1: Towards a Global System of Criminal Justice?
The two cornerstones of the Western inter-state system
War crimes after the First World War
Fractures in the system: the legacies of Nuremberg and Tokyo
Amnesties, executions or trials?
Hans Kelsen, a perceptive critic of the Nuremberg Trial
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Nuremberg Principles
Universal jurisdiction in international criminal justice’s period of hibernation
The emergence of a new paradigm of criminal justice
Ad hoc tribunals established by the Security Council
The International Criminal Court
Hybrid tribunals
Focusing on the trials
Notes
2: Objectives and Reality of International Criminal Justice
From the liberal model to international justice
Stated objectives
The effects of international criminal justice in the real world
The theatrical trials
The long road ahead
Notes
3: Cosmopolitan Principles of International Criminal Justice
The cosmopolitan project
Cosmopolitan principles of criminal justice
Cosmopolitan hopes, political reality
Notes
Part II: International Criminal Justice in Action
4: Universal Jurisdiction: The Proceedings against Augusto Pinochet
A jurisprudential bombshell
Testing the limits of universal jurisdiction
Bringing justice home
Global impact of the proceedings
A parable for universal jurisdiction
Notes
5: Special International Tribunals: Slobodan Milošević and Radovan Karadžić in The Hague
Leaders in the dock or at the negotiating tables?
Milošević and Karadžić on trial
Impact of international justice at a local level
Impact of the trials at an international level
Twin brothers at The Hague?
Notes
6: Winners’ Justice: The Trial of Saddam Hussein
A deck of cards
The making of the Iraqi High Tribunal
The Dujail trial
Dujail: reactions at home and abroad
Was the trial any better than a summary execution?
Notes
7: The International Criminal Court in Search of a Defendant: Omar al-Bashir
Testing the new hopes
Darfur: a case for the International Criminal Court
Domestic impact of the indictments
Africa’s response to the indictments
Global responses to the indictments of al-Bashir
Much ado about nothing
Notes
Part III: The Future for Global Criminal Justice
8: An Assessment of International Criminal Justice
Lessons learnt
A continuation of victors’ justice?
The impact of international criminal justice
How to interpret the recourse to tribunals and trials
Notes
9: What Future for International Tribunals?
One court or a hundred tribunals?
The rebellion of African governments
Can the ICC be reformed?
What outlook for universal jurisdiction?
Trials in absentia?
Hopes betrayed
Notes
10: Justice From Below: What Can Be Done?
From states’ monocratic power over justice to cosmopolitan justice
Truth and reconciliation
Opinion tribunals
Individual or collective punishment?
Notes
Epilogue
Appendix: Films and Books about International Criminal Justice
References
Index
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