Reviews for Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals

The average rating for Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-17 00:00:00 Amanda Black A fascinating read, that went beyond the normal coverage of genocide or war crimes in themselves. This text provides a good over view of political theory in regards to how liberal states respond to war tribunals and for the most part the arguments raised by the author stay consistent as they highlight them with examples from the post-Napoleonic war, post-WWI, post-WII, and the foundation of the Yugoslav war tribunal. Provides a strong historical context for the tribunals in question while also providing strong analysis into the topic of war tribunals. Slightly dated, and the fact it was dated while the Yugoslav tribunals were still in process takes a little from the final chapter.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-10 00:00:00 Andie Beers 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.