The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: An Exercise in Law, Politics, and Diplomacy by Rachel Kerr

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On 25 May 1993 the United Nations Security Council took the extraordinary and unprecedented step of deciding to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a mechanism for the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security. This was an extremely significant innovation in the use of mandatory enforcement powers by the Security Council, and the manifestation of an explicit link between peace and justice - politics and law. The show more establishment of ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda was followed by the adoption of the Rome Stat show less