International Military Tribunals

  • Damien Rogers
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Abstract

Rogers focuses on the underlying material conditions as well as the more obvious circumstances that gave rise to the international military tribunals established in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. This chapter argues that both tribunals helped to legitimise the new status quo in international affairs. By considering the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials in the context of US-led efforts to promote neo-capitalism abroad, this chapter argues that these prosecutions of mass atrocity marked the beginning of a politico-cultural civil war fought by proponents of economic liberalisation for control over the modernist project.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Damien Rogers
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  1. 1.Centre for Defence and Security StudiesMassey UniversityAucklandNew Zealand

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