Two well conceive and argued books offering a critical approach on the subject of “international justice”, one authored by Tiphaine Dickson the other coauthored by Tiphaine Dickson and Aleksandar Jokic are on display these days for viewing by the public at the Belgrade International Book Fair, both books are published in the special edition of the Serbian publishing house “Albatros plus”.
We will soon provide our readers with extensive reviews of these exceptional books. So far, we quote below the announcing texts from their back covers.
Thanks to the authors and the publisher, electronic versions (full text) of both books are free for download. The links are also given below.
Furies:
Essays On the Poverty, Rise, and Demise of International Criminal Law
By Tiphaine Dickson
“In this compelling and meticulously researched book, Tiphaine Dickson, former criminal defense attorney and scholar of international criminal law, argues that international criminal tribunals cannot afford due process to defendants who appear before them. Created by powerful nations, whose citizens are not generally subject to their jurisdiction, these courts conflate providing a fair trial with making a historical record. Dickson critiques “American exceptionalism” and U.S. policy, which prioritizes civil and political rights over socio-economic rights, but does justice to neither.”
Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita,
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Link for download: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336564867
Targets of international justice: Yugoslavia and Rwanda
By Tiphaine Dickson and Aleksandar Jokic
This book of essays and articles spans two decades and three continents. The essays are an attempt to understand and critique the puzzling development of international criminal tribunals that emerged suddenly after the end of the Cold War, though many decades of formal and informal efforts to create an international body with jurisdiction over criminal offenses of an international nature—and notably aggression, forgotten by the new Security Council bodies—had failed.
The chapters assembled in this book besides analyzing the positions, claims and what even passes for theories in various disciplines deployed within a novel post-Cold War field of “International Justice” also paints these endeavors as tools for justifying the foreign policies of the hegemonic United States and its subservient allies. Without explicitly reducing the international justice discourse, both public and academic, to outright propaganda, we deliberately present Yugoslavia and Rwanda as targets of international justice, countries that are literally no more or so dramatically transfigured that the flags from the cover of this book no longer stand for anything. No doubt many among those who had found their academic niche as contributors to some aspect of international justice discourse will find our position surprising, exaggerated, and even shocking. In the end, whatever the shock value of this book, our hope is that its readers, particularly the uninitiated, will find our arguments compelling and useful.
Link for download: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336564869