Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals Book

This covers the different manners in which post-war "war criminals" were handled historically [that is developments up to July 2001] from Napoleon to Milošević. Of course it's full of fawning at the liberality, legalism and broad minded idealism of certain elite policy makers in the post-Nuremberg world order of righteous warfare in defence of human rights. If it practically seems like international bodies exist today just to prevent some bongobongostanian revolutionary politician from unifying to much territory and consolidating to much power upsetting the status quo that the Western elite are comfortable with this won't change your mind probably. A must read presumably on the bedsides of Nobel Peace Prize recipients Barack Obama and Henry Kissinger.