The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America
- ISBN-10
- 0676977448
- ISBN-13
- 9780676977448
- Category
- International crimes
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Author
- Erna Paris
Description
In this groundbreaking work, Erna Paris, the award-winning author of Long Shadows, explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court and the implications for the world at large. At the end of the twentieth century, two extraordinary events took place. The first was the end of the Cold War, which left the world with a single empire that dominated world affairs with a ready fist. The second event was the birth of the International Criminal Court--the first permanent tribunal of its kind. The ICC prosecutes crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Its mandate is to confront impunity and demand accountability for the worst crimes known. On March 11, 2003, eighty-nine countries came together to inaugurate the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Yet there was one country conspicuously absent from the proceedings. The United States, once a reluctant supporter of the court, had dramatically unsigned the treaty prior to its ratification, and made it clear that the ICC's mandate was not in alignment with American values and goals. In this riveting exposé. Erna Paris explores the difficult birth of the ICC and the American oppositions to the court. In doing so, she comes face to face with such fascinating characters as Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the former prosecutor of the "Dirty War" in Argentina, who is now the ICC's chief prosecutor Hans-Pater Kaul, the German judge whose pain over his country's Nazi past propelled him to move his country to the heart of the struggle for criminal accountability int he face of genocide; the American Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, John Bolton, who spearheaded the American crusade against the court; human rights activist Michael Ratner, a champion of those whose rights were taken away in the post 9/11 justice system of the United States; and former American Secretary of State Robert McNamara, who was the architect of US involvement during the Vietnam War, and who now supports the International Criminal Court.
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