War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues - Couverture rigide

Krammer, Arnold

 
9780313359378: War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0313359377 ISBN 13 : 9780313359378
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.

Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities are as old as war itself, they did not become punishable crimes until the law evolved to define them as such. War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues examines the types of war crimes and the motivations behind them, as well as the laws that seek to control and abolish these heinous acts.

Within the handbook, centuries of war crimes and genocides are analyzed and catalogued. At the same time, the author offers a history of the development of the rules of war, enabling readers to grasp the importance of such precedent-setting events as the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, and to see the gradual evolution of the laws intended to punish perpetrators and prevent future barbarism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arnold Krammer is professor of history at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0313359377
ISBN 13 
9780313359378
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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