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The main interest in Zolo s version of this familiar argument is given by his detailed close readings of institutional charters and statutes from the League of Nations onwards ... He formulates nicely the fundamental contradiction in the ideal of 'humanitarian war'. --Steven Poole, Guardian
Zolo has developed an illuminating and unusually coherent critique of the international legal order, its aspirations, its many uses, its successes and failures. --Chase Madar, London Review of Books
Danilo Zolo has written a brilliantly provocative and fascinating critique of US-led NATO strategy in the Balkans that is a troubling indictment of all aspects of 'humanitarian diplomacy'. --Richard Falk, Princeton University
Zolo has developed an illuminating and unusually coherent critique of the international legal order, its aspirations, its many uses, its successes and failures. --Chase Madar, London Review of Books
Danilo Zolo has written a brilliantly provocative and fascinating critique of US-led NATO strategy in the Balkans that is a troubling indictment of all aspects of 'humanitarian diplomacy'. --Richard Falk, Princeton University
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"Victors' Justice" is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law as an instrument of Western hegemony, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo's key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other. Though it constantly advertised its impartiality and universalism, international law served to bolster and legitimise, ever since the Tokyo and Nuremberg trials, a fundamentally unilateral, asymmetrical and unequal international order.
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Valid critique but offering no real solutions
1 May 2010
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The essential argument of the book is that the great powers use international law and international institutions to further their own ends in the world. This is undoubtably true and the author makes a good case that it is true. But the author falls down in two areas: The first is that there is value to the world in the imperfect and biased structures such as they exist. And that whatever the flaws of the current system, nobody has proposed anything that would be better.
Zolo pushes for regionalism. But if you look at any region in the world, there are the strong and the weak. The problems that he sees at the UN would simply be replicated at a regional level. Is a South Africa, Nigeria, India or Brazil throwing its weight around in a region any better than the United States or China throwing their weight around? Absolutely not.
Of course Zolo sees the new "regional leaders" as being countries like Venezula. The closest model for what Zolo aspires to inflict on the world is the alliance of dependent states that the oil money of Hugo Chavez put together. Or the Club of Marxist Crocodiles of Southern Africa who has put so much energy into saving Robert Mugabe on the theory that if one of their rotten states crumbles, they will all crumble.
So in summary, while the critique is very correct there is nothing reasonable proposed that would be an improvement.
Zolo pushes for regionalism. But if you look at any region in the world, there are the strong and the weak. The problems that he sees at the UN would simply be replicated at a regional level. Is a South Africa, Nigeria, India or Brazil throwing its weight around in a region any better than the United States or China throwing their weight around? Absolutely not.
Of course Zolo sees the new "regional leaders" as being countries like Venezula. The closest model for what Zolo aspires to inflict on the world is the alliance of dependent states that the oil money of Hugo Chavez put together. Or the Club of Marxist Crocodiles of Southern Africa who has put so much energy into saving Robert Mugabe on the theory that if one of their rotten states crumbles, they will all crumble.
So in summary, while the critique is very correct there is nothing reasonable proposed that would be an improvement.
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