Victors' Justice

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From Nuremberg to Baghdad

By Danilo Zolo

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Victors' Justice by Danilo Zolo presents a powerful critique of how international penal law is manipulated by Western powers. The book argues that international law operates as a two-tier system: one set of laws for global hegemons and their allies, and another punitive system for the defeated and disadvantaged. Zolo traces this bias back to the Tokyo and Nuremberg trials, illustrating how purported impartiality conceals a fundamentally unequal international order.
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This book is suited for readers interested in international law, political philosophy, and global justice, including scholars, students, and professionals engaged in legal and political studies.

International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism

International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism

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Victors' Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis.

Zolo’s key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.

Though it constantly advertised its impartiality and universalism, international law served to bolster and legitimise, ever since the Tokyo and Nuremberg trials, a fundamentally unilateral and unequal international order.

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Zolo's work is praised for its illuminating and coherent critique of the international legal system, challenging common judicial approaches to global relations. Reviews highlight the book's compelling analysis of the realpolitik behind humanitarian rhetoric and its stimulation of intellectual debate on international justice today.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788736633

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 January 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

Translated by M W Weir

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 228g

Pages: 208

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Danilo Zolo Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Danilo Zolo is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Florence. He is the author of several books, including Democracy and Complexity, Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government and Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order.