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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Critics of human rights discourse and new approaches to the history of human rights will probably see this work as an example of the kind of optimistic picture that they are working to deconstruct but from a normative perspective, the term “justice cascade” is useful as a tool and approach. The trick will be to combine this with some of the lessons of the critical scholarship.