Judge and Executioner: The Politics of Responding to Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
Explores the problems of enforcing human rights norms in a world between the state of nature and the collective bodies of the United Nations system. International response to the horrors of ethnic cleansing; Responses to events abroad that are filtered through the lens of state interests; Reasons for skepticism in the face of genocide; Decentralized nature of the United Nations Security Council; Propensity for inaction existing at each level of judge and executioner; Unilateral response to human rights violations.
Repository Citation
Shannon, V.
(2005). Judge and Executioner: The Politics of Responding to Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans. Journal of Genocide Research, 7 (1), 47-66.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/political_science/6
DOI
10.1080/14623520500044602
