The Criminal State
War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes
The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought to trace the shifting legal response to state aggression and atrocities, from Leopoldâs rule over the Congo to Putinâs war in Ukraine.
At its heart is Lawrence Douglasâs fresh interpretation of the lawâs reckoning with Nazi aggression and atrocity. He shows how the Nuremberg trials challenged centuries of thoughtârooted in Hobbes and other canonical thinkersâthat shielded sovereigns from legal scrutiny. Yet Nurembergâs bid to frame aggression as the cornerstone of a new order of international criminal law largely failed, giving way to a system now centrally concerned with crimes against humanity and genocideâwhile leaving unresolved the legality and effectiveness of using force to stop the worst violations of human rights.
Providing rare historical perspective on the dilemmas facing international courts, The Criminal State is a sweeping, provocative history of the struggle to bring perpetrators of state violence to justice.
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War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes
The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought to trace the shifting legal response to state aggression and atrocities, from Leopoldâs rule over the Congo to Putinâs war in Ukraine.
At its heart is Lawrence Douglasâs fresh interpretation of the lawâs reckoning with Nazi aggression and atrocity. He shows how the Nuremberg trials challenged centuries of thoughtârooted in Hobbes and other canonical thinkersâthat shielded sovereigns from legal scrutiny. Yet Nurembergâs bid to frame aggression as the cornerstone of a new order of international criminal law largely failed, giving way to a system now centrally concerned with crimes against humanity and genocideâwhile leaving unresolved the legality and effectiveness of using force to stop the worst violations of human rights.
Providing rare historical perspective on the dilemmas facing international courts, The Criminal State is a sweeping, provocative history of the struggle to bring perpetrators of state violence to justice.
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War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes
The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought to trace the shifting legal response to state aggression and atrocities, from Leopoldâs rule over the Congo to Putinâs war in Ukraine.
At its heart is Lawrence Douglasâs fresh interpretation of the lawâs reckoning with Nazi aggression and atrocity. He shows how the Nuremberg trials challenged centuries of thoughtârooted in Hobbes and other canonical thinkersâthat shielded sovereigns from legal scrutiny. Yet Nurembergâs bid to frame aggression as the cornerstone of a new order of international criminal law largely failed, giving way to a system now centrally concerned with crimes against humanity and genocideâwhile leaving unresolved the legality and effectiveness of using force to stop the worst violations of human rights.
Providing rare historical perspective on the dilemmas facing international courts, The Criminal State is a sweeping, provocative history of the struggle to bring perpetrators of state violence to justice.
