The Justice Cascade
How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics
Published on 19. September 2011
352 pages
978-0-393-08328-6 (ISBN)
Description
Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations.
Grawemeyer Award winner 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.Drawing on extensive research and illuminating personal experience, Sikkink reveals how the stunning emergence of human rights prosecutions has come about; what effect it has had on democracy, conflict, and repression; and what it means for leaders and citizens everywhere, from Uruguay to the United States. The Justice Cascade is a vital read for anyone interested in the future of world politics and human rights.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: Creating Individual Accountability
- 2. Navigating Without a Map
- 3. Argentina
- Part II: Spreading Ideas About Individual Accountability
- Interlude
- 4. The Streams of The Justice Cascade
- Part III: Do Human Rights Prosecutions Make a Difference?
- 5. The Effects of Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America
- 6. Global Deterrence and Human Rights Prosecutions
- 7. Is the United States Immune to the Justice Cascade?
- Part IV: Conclusions
- 8. Policy, Theory, and the Justice Cascade
- Acknowledgments
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
