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Understanding International Relations
Lecture, ‘Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace’ (1993); and Rebecca Cook,
Human
Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (1994) – particularly
the chapters by Coomaraswamy and Charlesworth. For feminist argument in
favour of universalism, read Martha Nussbaum, ‘The Professor of Parody: The
Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler’ (1999).
The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches, edited by
Timothy McCormack and Gerry Simpson (1997),
is an excellent introduction
to international criminal law, offering both theoretical and historical insight.
Yves Beigbeder,
Judging War Criminals: The Politics of International Justice
(1999), looks in more detail at the development of individual responsibility.
Christopher Rudolph, ‘Constructing an Atrocities Regime: The Politics of
War Crimes Tribunals’ (2001), and Frederic Megret, ‘The Politics of International
Criminal Justice’ (2002), are good recent theoretical pieces. Hilary
Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin,
The Boundaries of International Law:
A Feminist Analysis (2000), uses feminist theory to analyse and critique the inter-
national justice system, including human rights law. Christian Reus-Smit (ed.)
The Politics of International Law (2004) offers a constructivist perspective on
international law and includes chapters on the ICC and on NATO’s bombing
campaign in Kosovo. William Schabas,
An Introduction to the International
Criminal Court (2001), and Antonio Cassese
et al.,
The Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court: A Commentary (2002), are the best general
texts on the ICC and the
American Journal of International Law (1999) is
the best collection of papers on the Court. The official website of the ICC is
at http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l
⫽en. All
relevant documents can be
found on the website of the Rome Statute: http://www.un.org/law/icc/. The
most broad-ranging internet resource in this area is www.iccnow.org (a website
run by the Coalition for the ICC, a group of NGOs) which contains updates on
ratifications and investigations, a good question and answer section and much
more. To understand the US critique of the ICC, see Jason Ralph, ‘International
Society, the International Criminal Court and American Foreign Policy’ (2005,
forthcoming), and Peter Spiro, ‘The New Sovereigntists’ (2000); Jessie Helms,
‘American Sovereignty and the UN’ (2000/01); David Rivkin and Lee Casey, ‘The
Rocky Shoals of International Law’ (2000/01) on the ‘new sovereigntist’ cri-
tique. R. James Woolsey (ed.)
The National Interest
on International Law and
Order (2003) gathers together a wide range of relevant pieces previously
published in leading US realist journal
The National Interest, including Rivkin
and Casey and Helms. On Pinochet, the best source is Marc Weller, ‘On the
Hazards of Foreign Travel for Dictators and Other Criminals’ (1999).
On humanitarian intervention N. J. Wheeler,
Saving Strangers (2000), is indis-
pensable. Wide-ranging collections include Deen K. Chatterjee and Don E.
Scheid (eds)
Ethics and Foreign Intervention: Kosovo and Beyond (2004);
Anthony Lang (ed.)
Just Interventions (2003); Jeff Holzgrefe and Robert
Keohane,
Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas
(2003); and Jonathon Moore (ed.)
Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in
Humanitarian Intervention (1998). Michael Walzer,
Just and Unjust Wars
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(2000), sets out a liberal position inimical to humanitarian intervention, which
some of the later essays in his
Arguing About War (2004) modify somewhat.
The journal
Ethics and International Affairs, published by the Carnegie Council
for Ethics
and International Affairs, is a valuable source of material on this sub-
ject. The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty report
(2002) is more useful than is usually the case with such commissions.
The further reading section of Chapter 7 lists texts on specific interventions.
See also: Mohamed Sahnoun, ‘Mixed Intervention in Somalia and the Great
Lakes: Culture, Neutrality and the Military’ (1998); Mark Bowden,
Black
Hawk Down (1999); Philip Gourevitch,
We wish to inform you that tomorrow
we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (1998); Gérard
Prunier,
The Rwanda Crisis, 1959–94: History of a Genocide (1995); James
Gow,
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav
War (1997);
Ken Booth,
The Kosovo Tragedy (2001); Tony Blair, ‘Doctrine of
International Community’ (1999). The journals
International Affairs and
Foreign Affairs also routinely publish articles of interest.
Noam Chomsky,
The New Military Humanism (1999), and John Pilger,
New
Rulers of the World (2002), attack the motives of Western interveners.
Samantha Power,
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
(2002), looks at US policy and genocide.
Harvard Human Rights Journal,
Volume 17 (2004), examines the relations between NGOs and the US military
in recent conflicts.
Chris Brown, ‘Do Great Powers Have Great
Responsibilities? Great Powers and Moral Agency’ (2004), and Toni Erskine,
‘ “Blood on the UN’s Hands”? Assigning Duties and Apportioning Blame to an
Intergovernmental Organisation’ (2004), look at issues of moral responsibility
and authority.
Chris Brown,
Sovereignty, Rights, and Justice: International Political Theory
Today (2002), covers much of the subject matter of this chapter, and readers are
referred to both the text and the bibliography.
