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Francine Hirsch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the soviets at nuremberg international law propaganda and the making of the postwar order
The American Historical Review, 2008Co-Authors: Francine HirschAbstract:THE NUREMBERG TRIALS OF NOVEMBER 1945 TO OCTOBER 1946 are still seen through the distorting lens of the Cold War. Nuremberg was a foundational event of the postwar era, generating numerous retellings in memoirs, monographs, and films. The classic account of the trials is an Anglo-American tale of liberal triumph in which the high-minded U.S. chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, along with representatives of the other Western Powers, put the desire for vengeance aside and gave the Nazis a fair trial before the law—marking one of “the law’s first great efforts to submit mass atrocity to principled judgment” and ushering in a new era of international human rights.1 This narrative became established in the West during the long decades of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, when Soviet materials relating to the trials, and to postwar diplomatic relations in general, were off limits in the Soviet archives. For politicians and historians who helped create the classic narrative of Nuremberg, the role of the Soviets in the International Military Tribunal (IMT) was, and remains, an awkward fact. Most English-language accounts describe Soviet participation in Nuremberg as “the Achilles’ heel” of the trials: regrettable but unavoidable, a Faustian bargain that the U.S. and Britain made in order to bring closure to the war and bring the Nazis to justice.2 Popular works that have shaped conventional
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the soviets at nuremberg international law propaganda and the making of the postwar order
The American Historical Review, 2008Co-Authors: Francine HirschAbstract:THE NUREMBERG TRIALS OF NOVEMBER 1945 TO OCTOBER 1946 are still seen through the distorting lens of the Cold War. Nuremberg was a foundational event of the postwar era, generating numerous retellings in memoirs, monographs, and films. The classic account of the trials is an Anglo-American tale of liberal triumph in which the high-minded U.S. chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, along with representatives of the other Western Powers, put the desire for vengeance aside and gave the Nazis a fair trial before the law—marking one of “the law’s first great efforts to submit mass atrocity to principled judgment” and ushering in a new era of international human rights.1 This narrative became established in the West during the long decades of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, when Soviet materials relating to the trials, and to postwar diplomatic relations in general, were off limits in the Soviet archives. For politicians and historians who helped create the classic narrative of Nuremberg, the role of the Soviets in the International Military Tribunal (IMT) was, and remains, an awkward fact. Most English-language accounts describe Soviet participation in Nuremberg as “the Achilles’ heel” of the trials: regrettable but unavoidable, a Faustian bargain that the U.S. and Britain made in order to bring closure to the war and bring the Nazis to justice.2 Popular works that have shaped conventional
Richard Caplan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the hour of europe Western Powers and the breakup of yugoslavia
Nationalities Papers, 2013Co-Authors: Richard CaplanAbstract:The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, by Josip Glaurdic, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2011, 432 pp., US$55/GB£40(hardcover), ISBN 978-0-300-16629-3 The c...
Yonatan Lupu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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trading on preconceptions why world war i was not a failure of economic interdependence
International Security, 2012Co-Authors: Erik Gartzke, Yonatan LupuAbstract:World War I is generally viewed by both advocates and critics of commercial liberal theory as the quintessential example of a failure of economic integration to maintain peace. Yet this consensus relies on both methodologically flawed inference and an incomplete accounting of the antecedents to the war. Crucially, World War I began in a weakly integrated portion of Europe with which highly integrated Powers were entangled through the alliance system. Crises among the highly interdependent European Powers in the decades leading up to the war were generally resolved without bloodshed. Among the less interdependent Powers in Eastern Europe, however, crises regularly escalated to militarized violence. Moreover, the crises leading to the war created increased incentives for the integrated Powers to strengthen commitments to their less interdependent partners. In attempting to make these alliances more credible, Western Powers shifted foreign policy discretion to the very states that lacked strong economic disi...
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trading on preconceptions why world war i was not a failure of economic interdependence
Social Science Research Network, 2012Co-Authors: Erik Gartzke, Yonatan LupuAbstract:The First World War is generally viewed by both advocates and critics of commercial liberal theory as the quintessential example of a failure of economic integration to maintain peace. Yet this consensus relies both on methodologically flawed inference and an incomplete accounting of the antecedents to the war. Crucially, the war began in a weakly integrated portion of Europe with which highly integrated Powers were entangled through the alliance system. Crises among the highly interdependent European Powers in the decades leading up to World War I were generally resolved without bloodshed. Among the less interdependent Powers in Eastern Europe, however, crises regularly escalated to militarized violence. Moreover, the crises leading to the war created increased incentives for the integrated Powers to strengthen commitments to their less-interdependent partners. In attempting to make these alliances more credible, Western Powers shifted foreign policy discretion to the very states that lacked strong economic disincentives to fight. Had globalization pervaded Eastern Europe, or the rest of Europe been less locked into events in the East, Europe might have avoided a “Great War.”
Susan Waltz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reclaiming and rebuilding the history of the universal declaration of human rights
Third World Quarterly, 2002Co-Authors: Susan WaltzAbstract:The political history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is not well known and obscurity has fostered a number of assumptions that require inspection. Recent scholarship challenges the notion that the UDHR was uniquely sponsored and promoted by the Western Powers, and indeed raises questions about great power support for efforts to craft international human rights standards. This article explores four political myths about the Universal Declaration, each of which contains a grain of truth, but each of which also misleads. If the historical role of large states in advancing human rights norms is exaggerated, the role and contribution of small states has likewise been overlooked. The Universal Declaration is a negotiated text and many states participated in its construction. Its legitimacy extends from the political process that gave it shape and all states thus have an interest in small states reclaiming their share in its history.
Erik Gartzke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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trading on preconceptions why world war i was not a failure of economic interdependence
International Security, 2012Co-Authors: Erik Gartzke, Yonatan LupuAbstract:World War I is generally viewed by both advocates and critics of commercial liberal theory as the quintessential example of a failure of economic integration to maintain peace. Yet this consensus relies on both methodologically flawed inference and an incomplete accounting of the antecedents to the war. Crucially, World War I began in a weakly integrated portion of Europe with which highly integrated Powers were entangled through the alliance system. Crises among the highly interdependent European Powers in the decades leading up to the war were generally resolved without bloodshed. Among the less interdependent Powers in Eastern Europe, however, crises regularly escalated to militarized violence. Moreover, the crises leading to the war created increased incentives for the integrated Powers to strengthen commitments to their less interdependent partners. In attempting to make these alliances more credible, Western Powers shifted foreign policy discretion to the very states that lacked strong economic disi...
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trading on preconceptions why world war i was not a failure of economic interdependence
Social Science Research Network, 2012Co-Authors: Erik Gartzke, Yonatan LupuAbstract:The First World War is generally viewed by both advocates and critics of commercial liberal theory as the quintessential example of a failure of economic integration to maintain peace. Yet this consensus relies both on methodologically flawed inference and an incomplete accounting of the antecedents to the war. Crucially, the war began in a weakly integrated portion of Europe with which highly integrated Powers were entangled through the alliance system. Crises among the highly interdependent European Powers in the decades leading up to World War I were generally resolved without bloodshed. Among the less interdependent Powers in Eastern Europe, however, crises regularly escalated to militarized violence. Moreover, the crises leading to the war created increased incentives for the integrated Powers to strengthen commitments to their less-interdependent partners. In attempting to make these alliances more credible, Western Powers shifted foreign policy discretion to the very states that lacked strong economic disincentives to fight. Had globalization pervaded Eastern Europe, or the rest of Europe been less locked into events in the East, Europe might have avoided a “Great War.”
