International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans

Victor Peskin received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an Assistant Professor in The School of Global Studies at Arizona State University. His scholarly and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations, comparative politics, and human rights. His research examines the politics of the contemporary international criminal tribunals and their contentious relationship with states implicated in war crimes and genocide. His research has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He has published articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Legal Affairs, International Peacekeeping, the Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

This book investigates how the UN International Criminal Court pressures states to hand over their own leaders for trial.

Part I. Introduction: 1. International war crimes tribunals and the politics of state cooperation; Part II. The Balkans: Strategies of Noncompliance and Instruments of Pressure: 2. Slobodan Milosevic and the politics of state cooperation; 3. International justice and Serbia's troubled democratic transition; 4. Franjo Tudman and the politics of international justice; 5. The politics of state cooperation in Croatia's democratic era; Part III. Rwanda: Virtual Trials, International Justice, and the Politics of Shame: 6. The struggle to create the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; 7. 'Trials of cooperation' and the battles for Karamira and Barayagwiza; 8. Investigating Rwandan patriotic front atrocities and the politics of bearing witness; 9. Victor's justice revisited: the prosecutor vs. Kagame; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. The present and future of international criminal justice.