The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics)
- ISBN-10
- 0393079937
- ISBN-13
- 9780393079937
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 342
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-26
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Kathryn Sikkink
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Discusses the emergence of human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool and the effect these trials have had on democracy, conflict and world politics from Latin America to Europe and Africa. 10,000 first printing.
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