Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice

Getting a head of state in the dock was once unthinkable but as journalist and human rights advocate Steve Crawshaw uncovers in PROSECUTING THE POWERFUL - a blend of on-the-ground reportage and intellectual history - it is a real possibility. In recent years rogue dictators from Serbia''s Slobodan MiloAevic - whom Steve interviewed -- to Liberia''s Charles Taylor and Sudan''s Omar al-Bashir have all ended up behind bars. Could Putin be next? Starting with reporting on crimes Ukraine, Crawshaw delves into the heroic history of how in the early 20th-century Raphael Lemkin (a native of Lviv) coined the term "genocide", and the lesser-known story of how the PM of Trinidad & Tobago was instrumental in setting up the International Criminal Court. Along the way we see how a brave whistleblower in Syria smuggled out pictures of Assad''s torture prisons and how the US passed a law giving it the freedom to storm the Hague and rescue any of its soldiers put on trial there. PROSECUTING THE POWERFUL tells a hopeful story of the long march towards justice for victims of state warfare.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Crawshaw, Crawshaw Steve
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780349128931
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12893-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, General and world history, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law