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Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the worlds most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators after World War II, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and the Rwandan genocide, and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court and Americas pursuit of suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, the book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies - both successful and unsuccessful - that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects. It is a story fraught with broken promises, backroom politics, ethical dilemmas, and daring escapades - all in the name of international justice and human rights.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Promise of International Justice
Part One
2. To Nuremberg and Beyond
3. The Hunters and the Hunted
4. Pursuing the Last Nazi War Criminals
Part Two
5. Balkan Fugitives, International Prosecutors
6. Tracking Rwanda’s Génocidaires
7. Hybrid Tribunals: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Part Three
8. International Criminal Court: At the Mercy of States
9. The “War on Terror” and Its Legacy
10. Epilogue: The Future of Global Justice
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Eric Stover is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Victor Peskin is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University and Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Alexa Koenig is Executive Director of the Human Rights Center and Lecturer in Residence in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Summary
Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world’s most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators after World War II, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and the Rwandan genocide, and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court and America’s pursuit of suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, the book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies—both successful and unsuccessful—that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects. It is a story fraught with broken promises, backroom politics, ethical dilemmas, and daring escapades—all in the name of international justice and human rights.
Hiding in Plain Sight is a companion book to the public television documentary Dead Reckoning: Postwar Justice from World War II to The War on Terror. For more information about the documentary, visit
www.pbs.org/wnet/dead-reckoning/. And for more information about the Human Rights Center, visit
hrc.berkeley.edu.
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"In Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror, Eric Stover, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig combine meticulous historical and legal research to trace the global search for war criminals from Adolf Eichmann to Ratko Mladic, Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden. Beginning by detailing the legal and humanitarian precedents set by the Nuremberg Trials and the Geneva Convention, and ending with a critique of the United States’ moral negation during the so-called ‘War on Terror’, this book is essential for readers looking to understand why crimes against humanity so frequently go unpunished."
