Balkans on Trial

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Balkans on Trial

Justice vs. Realpolitik

International relations Public international law: international organizations and institutions Public international law: criminal law

Author: Carole Hodge

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Collection: Routledge Advances in European Politics

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 10th May 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781000007121


Assessment of the ICTY Legacy

This book assesses the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY) legacy and examines the conflicting intersection of law and politics in the search for justice, both thematically and through close analysis of some of the major trials.

Related Cases and Questions

It analyses the related case brought against Serbia and Montenegro by Bosnia and Herzegovina at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as well as the Ganic case in London where the ICTY and ICJ findings were challenged. The book addresses the following questions:

  • To what extent the political climate in which the ICTY was conceived, and continues to operate, has affected the declared aims of its founders?
  • Have political considerations and political correctness, and the perceived need for political stability and democratic transition, at times proved an obstacle to the administration of justice?
  • Are some of the acknowledged failings of international policy in the 1990s finding some resonance in more recent court proceedings?

Intended Audience

This highly relevant and comprehensive book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, international relations, transitional justice, Balkan area studies, human rights law, international criminal and peace and conflict studies.

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