Springer Series on International Justice and Human Rights / The Rule of Law in an Era of Change

Introduction.- Drones, Distance and Death.- War as Play, War as Slaughter, and the Laws of War.- Humanizing the Counter-terrorist Discourse at the UNSC.- Victims of Terrorist Associations after September 11.- Humanizing the Counter-terrorist Discourse at the UNSC.- Victims of Terrorist Associations after September 11.- The Relationship between the ICC and Truth Commissions.- Legal Assumptions and Unintended Meanings before International Criminal Courts.

George Andreopoulos is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the founding Director of the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College. Before coming to CUNY, he taught for several years at Yale University, where he was also the founding Associate Director of the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights. He has written extensively on international organizations, international human rights, and international humanitarian law issues and has lectured widely at US and European universities. Over the years, he has participated in several human rights missions and has been a consultant for the United Nations and NGOs. He is Series Editor of the Springer Series on International Justice and Human Rights; President of the Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA); and former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Rosemary Barberet is Professor in the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who teaches in the MA and BA programs in International Criminal Justice. Trained in criminology in the United States (PhD, University of Maryland, 1994), she spent the first 15 years of her academic career in Europe (Spain and England). Dr. Barberet's research interests include the use of criminal justice data and research in policymaking, crime indicators, victimization, gender and crime and cross-cultural methodology. Dr. Barberet was awarded the Herbert Bloch Award of the American Society of Criminology for service to the society and to the professional interests of criminology, as well as the Rafael Salillas Award of the Sociedad Espanola de Investigación Criminológica. Her most recent book, Women, Crime and Criminal Justice: A Global Enquiry won awards from both the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of