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Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation Of International Norms, Jelena Subotić
Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation Of International Norms, Jelena Subotić
Human Rights & Human Welfare
This paper explores the domestic politics of international norm diffusion, using the global transmission of transitional justice norms as the empirical context of the research. Applying sociological institutionalism as the principal theoretical framework, I argue that the motivation of states to adopt international models of transitional justice has changed over time. The transitional justice norm - that posits that war crimes and massive human rights abuses must be dealt with in a proper legal setting and not through “victors’ justice” or impunity - was institutionalized in large part as the result of a strong domestic demand for transitional justice in …
International Humanitarianism In The Contemporary World: Forms And Issues, David P. Forsythe
International Humanitarianism In The Contemporary World: Forms And Issues, David P. Forsythe
Human Rights & Human Welfare
© 2004 David P. Forsythe. All rights reserved.
This paper was commissioned by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the United Nations University, for a research project on multilateralism starting Fall 2004.
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