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The Justice Cascade - How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

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Esteemed international relations scholar Kathryn Sikkink offers a landmark argument for human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool. She shows how, in just three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe, and Africa have lost their immunity from any accountability for their human rights violations, becoming the subjects of highly publicized trials resulting in severe consequences. This shift is affecting the behavior of political leaders worldwide and may change the face of global politics as we know it.

Sikkink presents her groundbreaking quantitative research to analyze the effects this "justice cascade" has had on democracy, conflict, and repression and reveals what political and social conditions are and aren't required for human rights trials to be effective. Engaging, analytical, and prescient, The Justice Cascade is a perfect book for international relations and human rights courses. 


About the author

Kathryn Sikkink is a Regents Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the cowinner of the 2000 Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order" and lives in Minneapolis.

Product details

Authors Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.03.2012
 
EAN 9780393919363
ISBN 978-0-393-91936-3
Dimensions 155 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
Weight 498 g
Series Norton Series in World Politic
Norton Series in World Politic
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology

LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal law & procedure, Criminal law: procedure and offences

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