1st Edition

Crimes of State Past and Present Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses

Edited By David Crowe Copyright 2011
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

219 Pages
by Routledge

War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself, but particularly during the 20th century. Yet what are war crimes and acts of genocide? And why did it take the world so long to define these crimes and develop legal institutions to bring to justice individuals and nations responsible such crimes? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the major wars fought in the 20th century and... Read more

Introduction  David M. Crowe  1. War Crimes and Genocide in History, and the Evolution of Responsive International Law David M. Crowe  2. The Last Bullet for the Last Serb? The Ustasa Genocide against Serbs: 1941-1945 Michele Frucht Levy  3. Hitler’s Rassenkampf in the East: The Forgotten Genocide of Soviet POWs Thomas Earl Porter  4. 'Only the National Socialist': Postwar US and West German Approaches to Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Crimes Michael Bryant  5. Justice 30 Years Later? The Cambodian Special Tribunal for the Punishment of Crimes against Humanity by the Khmer Rouge Wolfgang Form, translated by Michael Bryant  6. Adjudication Deferred: Command Responsibility for War Crimes and US Military Justice from My Lai to Haditha and Beyond William C. Peters

Biography

David M. Crowe is a professor of History at Elon University and a Professor of Legal History at Elon University’s School of Law. He is President Emeritus of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia where he has also served as a Visiting Scholar. He has taught at Central European University and has been a Fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasia, and East European Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also been a member of the Education Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and has served as chair of the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust. He has testified before the United States Congress’ Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the New York City Council’s Subcommittee on Immigration. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, and First World War Studies.