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Ultimately, this hastened the end of Milosevic's rule and led the way to history's first war crimes trial of a former president by an international tribunal. Hazan's account of the Tribunal's formation and evolution questions the contradictory policies of the Western powers and illuminates a cautionary tale for the reader: realizing ideals in a world enamored of realpolitik is a difficult and often haphazard activity.

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This is no doubt one of the best books so far written on international criminal justice. It is uniquely insightful and written in a lively style. In particular, Hazan's account of the birth of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, of its initial almost insurmountable obstacles, of some of its most interesting trials, and of how Prosecutor Arbour came to indict Milosevic, is really compelling. But the book is not only a sharp account of recent and current international events. It also contains some deep reflections on the complex relations between justice, diplomacy and world politics. Every person interested in international relations and world politics should read it. --Antonio Cassese, former Judge and President, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

"""This is no doubt one of the best books so far written on international criminal justice. It is uniquely insightful and written in a lively style. In particular, Hazan's account of the birth of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, of its initial almost insurmountable obstacles, of some of its most interesting trials, and of how Prosecutor Arbour came to indict Milosevic, is really compelling. But the book is not only a sharp account of recent and current international events. It also contains some deep reflections on the complex relations between justice, diplomacy and world politics. Every person interested in international relations and world politics should read it.""--Antonio Cassese, former Judge and President, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)"

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Pierre Hazan is a journalist with Liberation in Paris and Le Temps in Geneva, Switzerland. The author of three books, he has studied at the Center for Strategic Studies at Aberdeen University and the Post-Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva. James Thomas Snyder, who translated the book, is a journalist and former U.S. Congressional aide.

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