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Document Type: | Book |
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Christi Scott Bartman |
ISBN: | 9781443821360 1443821365 |
OCLC Number: | 620158072 |
Description: | vi, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | by Christi Scott Bartman. |
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"Bartman sheds new light on the little-known efforts of the international community in the inter-war period to define and outlaw aggression both by states and by individual state officials. She demonstrates a significant Soviet role-a role that has often been overlooked in accounts by other writers-in the origin of the post-World War II Nuremberg trials and the crime of aggression that was formulated there. Writing with a sweep of history, Bartman puts international legal doctrine into historical context and argues persuasively that the Soviet government used, and at times misused, this doctrine as a weapon in the propaganda war with the West. Finally, she shows how the avid advocacy of norms on aggression came back to haunt the USSR, and after it even the Russian Federation, when they used armed force in dubious circumstances in neighboring states. A must read for anyone who follows international diplomacy and the history of warfare." -John B. Quigley, President's Club Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University "By approaching the international law in a historical setting and exposing how efficient this weapon can be in advancing one's own national interests concealed as high international principles of law, the book constitutes a novel approach on the subject and invites to the rethinking of our understanding of international diplomacy and international law." Silviu Miloiu, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, Vol 14, Winter 2010 Read more...


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- Aggression (International law)
- War (International law)
- International law -- Soviet Union.
- International law -- Russia (Federation)
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations.
- Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations.
- Soviet Union -- Military policy.
- Russia (Federation) -- Military policy.
- International law.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Military policy.
- Russia (Federation)
- Soviet Union.