International Criminal Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change

International Criminal Tribunals do not only do justice and judge the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. Their decisions often affect whole societies, governments, legislation in distant countries and trigger processes od adaptation in the administration of countries, which are under the jurisdiction of such a tribunal. This book present the first part of the results of a five-year international research project, based on field research in ten European and African countries. It shows how and when International Criminal Tribunals can trigger institutional reforms even in non-democratic countries, and when and how some governments resisted the tribunals' influence. The editors and authors make an important contribution to the debates in International Relations, International Law and Political Science by showing the possibilities and limits of International Criminal Justice. Volume 1 presents the evidence from field studies in Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Libya, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro.

Klaus Bachmann is professor of social sciences at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland, specialising in Transitional Justice. He is the author of "Genocidal Empires. German Colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich", Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang 2018.? Gerhard Kemp is professor of law at Stellenbosch University, and advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He specialises in international criminal law and is the author of "Individual Criminal Liability for the International Crime of Aggression", Cambridge: Intersentia 2ed 2016. Irena Risti? is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, focusing on the history of Serbia in the 19th and 20th century. Her book on the position of Serbian political elites towards the West and Russia prior to World War I is forthcoming.