The UN Security Council and International Criminal Tribunals: Procedure Matters
The book explains why and how the UN Security Council authorizes international criminal investigations into mass atrocities. In doing so, it tackles head-on the obvious double standards of global justice, where few atrocities get investigated and most sli
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Christodoulos Kaoutzanis
The UN Security Council and International Criminal Tribunals: Procedure Matters
Studies in Global Justice Volume 20
Series Editor Deen K. Chatterjee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Editorial Board Elizabeth Ashford, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK Gillian Brock, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Thom Brooks, Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham, UK Simon Caney, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Hiram E. Chodosh, President, Claremont McKenna College, Claremount, CA, USA Jean-Marc Coicaud, Law School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA Michael Doyle, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Andreas Follesdal, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Carol Gould, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA Virginia Held, Department of Philosophy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Jon Mandle, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA Richard W. Miller, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Sanjay G. Reddy, The New School For Social Research, New York, NY, USA David Rodin, University of Oxford, UK Joel H. Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, NY, USA Kok-Chor Tan, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Leif Wenar, King’s College London, UK Veronique Zanetti, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
In today’s world, national borders seem irrelevant when it comes to international crime and terrorism. Likewise, human rights, migration, climate change, poverty, inequality, democracy, development, trade, bioethics, hunger, war and peace are all issues of global rather than national justice. The fact that mass demonstrations are organized whenever the world’s governments and politicians gather to discuss such major international issues is testimony to a widespread appeal for justice around the world. Discussions of global justice are not limited to the fields of political philosophy and political theory. In fact, research concerning global justice quite often requires an interdisciplinary approach. It involves aspects of ethics, law, human rights, international relations, sociology, economics, public health, and ecology. Studies in Global Justice takes up that interdisciplinary perspective. The series brings together outstanding monographs and anthologies that deal with both basic normative theorizing and its institutional applications. The volumes in the series discuss such aspects of global justice as the scope of social justice, the moral significance of borders, global inequality and poverty, the justification and content of human rights, the aims and methods of development, global environmental justice, global bioethics, the global institutional order and the justice of intervention and war. Volumes in this series will prove of great relevance to researchers, educators and students, as well as politicians, policymakers and go
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