Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Danilo Zolo ,
M W Weir
Publisher: Verso Books
Imprint: Verso Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.327kg
ISBN: 9781844673179
ISBN 10: 1844673170
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 02 November 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By: 9781788736633
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a powerful and well-argued book. All those who believe in the justice of humanitarian military intervention and the legality of the enforcement of human rights by international tribunals should read it. It will force them to think whether they are right. Paul Hirst, Birkbeck College, University of London Danilo Zolo has written a brilliantly provocative and fascinating critique of US-led NATO strategy in the Balkans that is a troubling indictment of all aspects of 'humanitarian diplomacy'. Richard Falk, Princeton University
The main interest in Zolo s version of this familiar argument is given by his detailed close readings of institutional charters and statutes from the League of Nations onwards ... He formulates nicely the fundamental contradiction in the ideal of 'humanitarian war'. Steven Poole, Guardian Zolo has developed an illuminating and unusually coherent critique of the international legal order, its aspirations, its many uses, its successes and failures. Chase Madar, London Review of Books Danilo Zolo has written a brilliantly provocative and fascinating critique of US-led NATO strategy in the Balkans that is a troubling indictment of all aspects of 'humanitarian diplomacy'. Richard Falk, Princeton University
Author Information
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 and Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order.
