United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice

Zusatztext Dr. Zachary Kaufman pierces the legalist bubble that has dominated our understanding of U.S involvement in transitional justice globally. Highlighting the extensive deliberations about other options, like extrajudicial killings, and emphasizing the undeniably political factors driving pragmatic policymakers, Kaufman challenges those who would suggest that a normative commitment to justice was the defining factor in the American response to atrocities. Informationen zum Autor Zachary D. Kaufman J.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as a Visiting Fellow at both Yale Law School and Yale University's Genocide Studies Program.Previously, Dr. Kaufman taught in Yale University's Department of Political Science and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, and he held fellowships, lectureships, or research positions at the U.S. Supreme Court, Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale School of Management, Stanford University, and New York University. He also worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and was the first American to serve at the International Criminal Court.Dr. Kaufman is the editor of Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (2012), the co-editor (with Dr. Phil Clark) of After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond (Oxford, 2009), and the author of dozens of articles and book chapters. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in International Relations from the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), a J.D. from Yale Law School (where he was an Olin Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review), and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University (where he was the student body president). Klappentext In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, 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 optionssince World War II. Zusammenfassung In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (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. More generally, prudentialism proposes that states pursue transitional justice options, not out of strict adherence to certain principles, but as a result of a case-specific balancing of politics, pragmatics, and normative beliefs. Kaufman tests these two competing theories through the U.S. experience in six contexts: Germany and Japan after World War II, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, the 1990-1991 Iraqi offenses against Kuwaitis, the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.Kaufman demonstrates that political and pragmatic factors featured as or more prominently in U.S. transitional justice policy than did...

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Zachary D. Kaufman J.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as a Visiting Fellow at both Yale Law School and Yale University's Genocide Studies Program. Previously, Dr. Kaufman taught in Yale University's Department of Political Science and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, and he held fellowships, lectureships, or research positions at the U.S. Supreme Court, Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale School of Management, Stanford University, and New York University. He also worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and was the first American to serve at the International Criminal Court. Dr. Kaufman is the editor of Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (2012), the co-editor (with Dr. Phil Clark) of After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond (Oxford, 2009), and the author of dozens of articles and book chapters. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in International Relations from the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), a J.D. from Yale Law School (where he was an Olin Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review), and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University (where he was the student body president).

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In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, 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 optionssince World War II.

Contenu

• List of Figures and Tables

• Acknowledgments

• Abbreviations

• Citations

• Glossary

• Actors

• Chapter I: Introduction

• Chapter II: Overview of Transitional Justice Options and

• the United States Role in Transitional Justice

• Chapter III: Competing Theories of United States Policy on Transitional Justice:

• Legalism Versus Prudentialism

• Chapter IV: The United States Role in Transitional Justice for Germany

• Chapter V: The United States Role in Transitional Justice for Japan

• Chapter VI: The United States Role in Transitional Justice for

• Libya, Iraq, and the Former Yugoslavia

• Chapter VII: The United States Role in Transitional Justice for Rwanda

• Chapter VIII: Conclusion

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Afterword

• Index