TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaufman,Zachary D.
TI  - United States law and policy on transitional justice: principles, politics, and pragmatics 
SN  - 9780190243524
AV  - KF9390 .K38 2016
U1  - 345.730231 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Transitional justice
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - International criminal courts
KW  - War crime trials
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - In this book Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of transitional justice options (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing six historical case studies, Kaufman evaluates why and how the United States has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War II. This book challenges the 'legalist' paradigm, which postulates that liberal states pursue war crimes tribunals because their decision-makers hold a principled commitment to the rule of law. Kaufman develops an alternative theory, 'prudentialism', which contends that any state (liberal or illiberal) may support bona fide war crimes tribunals
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190243494.001.0001
ER  -