Recent debates in Germany about the future of the country’s security and foreign policy have aroused interest abroad, especially in France. The development of Germany’s discourse on its role on the international scene has led certain parties to hope for change in the country’s strategic...
The financial system has become too complex to be controlled at state level.
Established to hold trials for crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, the ICTY has vacillated between its punitive purpose and writing the history of this period. By and large, it has failed to prosecute for crimes committed in Kosovo at the end of the decade. Finally, a...
The presidential primaries have begun, and have quickly become a target for much criticism. On the Republican side, the proliferation of candidates indicates rejection of the “establishment”, despite a certain weakening of the Tea Party movement. For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy...
The extraordinary nature of the 1994 massacres in Rwanda gave rise to the need for “complete justice”, operating judicial processes on several levels.
For a long time, Ethiopia was the only African country to escape colonization, but over recent decades the country has suffered a string of economic crises, a violent revolution, and Eritrea’s secession. The current government launched a massive development plan which is starting to show sign...
The establishment of the International Criminal Court has made it possible for the victim to be fully recognized in international trials, with the assertion of the right to compensation for acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. As the Court is pronouncing the first...
To date, a few thousand Europeans have left Europe to join jihadi fighters in Syria and Iraq. Several hundred of them have already returned. To deal with this phenomenon, some countries have developed radicalization prevention and de-radicalization programs. Although it is still difficult to...
European solidarity seems to be breaking down just as Europe is becoming a lesser factor in American strategy and alongside the proliferation of divergent poles affirming the differences of interests on the international scene. In this context the cost of Europe’s condition-less rallying...
The modern principle of international criminal justice goes back to Nuremberg and its highly specific historical context. The 1990s marks a decade of renaissance, for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in particular.
