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American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law on JSTOR
▻https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkb71
INTRODUCTION: The American Exemption
The history of international humanitarian law in the post–Second World War period is marked by two inconsistent—indeed, diametrically opposed—tendencies: first, the promulgation of universal standards of justice, the creation of institutions where they can be enforced, the advancing application of the principle of universal jurisdiction, and the global reach of the forces on which the enforcement of the law must rely; second, the capacity of the greatest of the great powers to achieve immunity from the application of those standards to itself and to its citizens.
novembre 2013
American Immunity – War Crimes and the Limits of International Law
by Patrick Hagopian
Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
▻https://www.umasspress.com/9781625340474/american-immunity