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Toward a Just World
Dorothy V. Jones
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Description for Toward a Just World
Hardcover. "Towards a Just World" tells the remarkable story of the long struggle to craft the concept of international justice that we have today. Dorothy V. Jones focuses on the first half of the 20th century, the pivotal years in which justice took on expanded meaning. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBT; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
A century ago, there was no such thing as international justice, and until recently, the idea of permanent international courts and formal war crimes tribunals would have been almost unthinkable. Yet now we depend on institutions such as these to air and punish crimes against humanity, as we have seen in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the appearance of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic before the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. "Toward a Just World" tells the remarkable story of the long struggle to craft the concept of international justice that we have today. Dorothy V. Jones focuses on ... Read more
A century ago, there was no such thing as international justice, and until recently, the idea of permanent international courts and formal war crimes tribunals would have been almost unthinkable. Yet now we depend on institutions such as these to air and punish crimes against humanity, as we have seen in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the appearance of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic before the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. "Toward a Just World" tells the remarkable story of the long struggle to craft the concept of international justice that we have today. Dorothy V. Jones focuses on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226409481
SKU
V9780226409481
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About Dorothy V. Jones
Dorothy V. Jones is a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library and an associate in the history department at Northwestern University. Among her books are Splendid Encounters: The Thought and Conduct of Diplomacy and Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of the Warlord States, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Toward a Just World
"An insightful and thoughtful history that traces the development of concepts such as human rights and world peace from The Hague conference of 1899 to the founding of the United Nations. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to ... Read more