Law and Politics in Transitional Justice
In: Annual review of political science, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 303-327
ISSN: 1094-2939
In: Annual review of political science, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 303-327
ISSN: 1094-2939
In: Annual review of political science, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 303-327
ISSN: 1545-1577
The tension between law and politics places transitional justice under cross-pressures. The impetus to hold perpetrators legally accountable for atrocities and major rights violations has emerged in part from the expectation that subjecting political behavior to the apolitical judgment of law will exert a civilizing effect. As demands for accountability have risen, politics has played a central role at every step. The past decade has seen a flourishing of research in empirical political science on the relationship between law and politics in postconflict and postauthoritarian justice. This research has tried to explain the turn to individual legal accountability and the development of norms and institutions for accountability. Research has stressed the role of politics in shaping the implementation of trials and other modes of accountability. It has also examined the consequences of these modes of accountability. We address research on each of these topics.
In: International theory: a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 434-448
ISSN: 1752-9727
In: Annual review of political science, Band 7, S. 345-362
ISSN: 1545-1577
In this essay, we survey the literature on international criminal tribunals & transitional justice. We argue that the literature has been dominated by two general orientations, a legalism that is premised on logic of appropriateness & a pragmatism premised on a logic of consequences. We also consider a third orientation, guided by a logic of emotions, that recognizes the significance of transitional justice but emphasizes strategies that diverge from the model of legalism. Our primary concern is with scholarship in political science, although we also consider work from the disciplines of law, history, & sociology & from practitioners & advocates. The normative positions of scholars have heavily influenced the development of literature in this field, in which scholarship, practice, & advocacy are deeply intertwined. Advocates & individuals who have played key roles in the development of international criminal justice institutions, domestic tribunals, & truth commissions have been prominent in setting the agenda for scholars. Nonetheless, there is also a growing body of rigorous social science research that attempts to assess empirically -- & sometimes critically -- the claims of advocates & practitioners & to explain changing strategies of justice. 60 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Annual review of political science, Band 7, S. 345-362
ISSN: 1094-2939
In: International security, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 5-44
ISSN: 1531-4804
In: Annual review of political science, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 345-362
ISSN: 1545-1577
▪ Abstract In this essay, we survey the literature on international criminal tribunals and transitional justice. We argue that the literature has been dominated by two general orientations, a legalism that is premised on a logic of appropriateness and a pragmatism premised on a logic of consequences. We also consider a third orientation, guided by a logic of emotions, that recognizes the significance of transitional justice but emphasizes strategies that diverge from the model of legalism. Our primary concern is with scholarship in political science, although we also consider work from the disciplines of law, history, and sociology and from practitioners and advocates. The normative positions of scholars have heavily influenced the development of literature in this field, in which scholarship, practice, and advocacy are deeply intertwined. Advocates and individuals who have played key roles in the development of international criminal justice institutions, domestic tribunals, and truth commissions have been prominent in setting the agenda for scholars. Nonetheless, there is also a growing body of rigorous social science research that attempts to assess empirically—and sometimes critically—the claims of advocates and practitioners and to explain changing strategies of justice.
In: International security, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 5-44
ISSN: 0162-2889
World Affairs Online
In: Conflict, security & development: CSD, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 103-113
ISSN: 1478-1174
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 115, Heft 2, S. 303-304
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: Annual Review of Political Science, Band 18, S. 303-327
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In: Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding, S. 37-76
In: Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics, S. 155-194
For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial juncture. The project for globalizing rights will either continue to be embedded or will fall backward into a maelstrom of nationalist backlash, religious resurgence and faltering Western power. Each chapter talks directly to the others in an interactive dialogue, providing a theoretical and methodological framework for a clear research agenda for the next decade. Scholars, graduate students and practitioners of political science, history, sociology, law and development will find much to both challenge and provoke them in this innovative book.