Victors' Justice

From Nuremberg to Baghdad

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, Reference & Language, Law
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Author: Danilo Zolo ISBN: 9781788736657
Publisher: Verso Books Publication: January 28, 2020
Imprint: Verso Language: English
Author: Danilo Zolo
ISBN: 9781788736657
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication: January 28, 2020
Imprint: Verso
Language: English

International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism

Victors' Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo's key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other. Though it constantly advertised its impartiality and universalism, international law served to bolster and legitimize, ever since the Tokyo and Nuremberg trials, a fundamentally unilateral and unequal international order.

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International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism

Victors' Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo's key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other. Though it constantly advertised its impartiality and universalism, international law served to bolster and legitimize, ever since the Tokyo and Nuremberg trials, a fundamentally unilateral and unequal international order.

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