Victor's Justice Cl
by Zolo,DaniloEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-11-02
Publisher(s): VERSO
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Danilo Zolo was Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Florence. He authored several books, including Democracy and Complexity, Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government; Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order; and Victors’ Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| The Criminalization of War | p. 1 |
| Humanitarian War | p. 45 |
| The Universality of Rights and Humanitarian War | p. 65 |
| Preventive Global War | p. 85 |
| Empire and War | p. 106 |
| The Reasons behind Terrorism | p. 125 |
| From Nuremberg to Baghdad | p. 138 |
| Bibliography | p. 167 |
| Index | p. 181 |
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