The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics)
By Kathryn Sikkink.
Description
Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations.Esteemed international relations scholar Kathryn Sikkink offers a landmark argument for human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool. She shows how, in just three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe, and Africa have lost their immunity from any accountability for their human rights violations, becoming the subjects of highly publicized trials resulting in severe consequences. This shift is affecting the beh...
ISBN(s)
0393919366, 9780393919363
