Reviews for International Criminal Law: The Essentials

The average rating for International Criminal Law: The Essentials based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-15 00:00:00 John Locallo Pretty interesting little volume about humanitarian intervention from right around the heyday of this doctrine/set of ideas. Features conceptual essays about hum int and then journalistic accounts of crimes in Rwanda, Bosnia, and East Timor. I learned the most about the latter country. Not a bad intro to the concept of hum int. and the problem of genocide in the post-CW world, although Samantha Power's Problem from Hell still takes the cake on those topics without a doubt.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-14 00:00:00 David Holt Spanning some of the worst bloodshed to have existed in the last half of the 20th century (and pre-dating 9/11 & the inevitable wars after that), The New Killing Fields is a collection of journalist reports, political commentary/opinions, and chilling eyewitness accounts from those lucky enough to survive the horrors. The book looks into the many problems of intervention and addresses those difficult questions such as if and when a country that has the resources to intervene and prevent a massacre/genocide in another country, should take action or not, and all the politics that go along with it. The New Killing Fields offers short but interesting recaps on Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda and East Timor, so this book could serve as a useful refresher or starting point for those looking into these parts of history.