The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

by Kathryn Sikkink

Book Overview

Esteemed international relations scholar Kathryn Sikkink offers a landmark argument for human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool. She shows how, in just three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe, and Africa have lost their immunity from any accountability for their human rights violations, becoming the subjects of highly publicized trials resulting in severe consequences. This shift is affecting the behavior of political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393919366
• ISBN13: 9780393919363
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"