Victors' Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad

Victors' Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad
ISBN-10
1788736648
ISBN-13
9781788736640
Series
Victors' Justice
Category
Political Science
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2020-01-28
Publisher
Verso Books
Author
Danilo Zolo

Description

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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