War crimes : law, politics, & armed conflict in the modern world /: law, politics, & armed conflict in the modern world. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steven P. Remy.
• Authors: Remy, Steven P
• Contents: Contents Chronology Who’s who Acknowledgments Part 1: War crimes and the laws of war in the era of global war (1863 – 1945) 1. The 19th century in the United States and Europe 2. Colonial wars 3. Between the Hague and Nuremberg 4. The Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals 5. National trials in Europe and Asia Part 2: The world of war crimes and international law after World War II 6. War crimes and international law in the Cold War and the era of decolonization 7. From International Criminal Tribunals to the International Criminal Court 8. Women and war crimes 9. Future war: private military companies, drones, cyberwar, and ecocide 10. Memory, transitional justice, and the investigative turn Part 3: Documents Document 1: General Orders, No. 100, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (the ‘Lieber Code’) (1863) Document 2: The Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) Document 3: Fighting colonial wars: From Charles Callwell’s Small Wars (1896) Document 4: Henry L. Stimson, ‘The Nuremberg Trial: Landmark in Law’ (1947) Document 5: Conversation between General of the Army MacArthur and Mr. George F. Kennan, March 5, 1948 Document 6: Raphael Lemkin and the UN defines "genocide" (1944 and 1945) Document 7: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicts Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic (1995) Document 8: African and international NGOs urge African states parties to the International Criminal Court to continue supporting the court (2017) Document 9: An African NGO reports on female perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda (1995) Document 10: A proposed definition of ecocide as a violation of international law (2021) Document 11: The president of Microsoft argues for the necessity of a ‘digital Geneva Convention’ (2017) Document 12: A Russian-American journalist reports on war crimes committed by the armed forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine (2022) Guide to further reading Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (188 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 341.69; War crimes (International law) -- History; War (International law) -- History; War crimes -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000891522; 9781000891508
• Related ISBNs: 9780367632939; 9780367632922
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