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SUMMARY:Book launch: 'United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice
 : Principles\, Politics\, and Pragmatics' - Zachary D Kaufman (Harvard Uni
 versity)\; Adam Branch (respondent\, Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Description: In _United States Law and Policy on Transitional 
 Justice: Principles\, Politics\, and Pragmatics_\, *Zachary D. Kaufman* ex
 plores the U.S. government's support for\, or opposition to\, certain tran
 sitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible
  responses to atrocities (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing
  six historical case studies\, Kaufman evaluates why and how the United St
 ates has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War I
 I.\n\nThis book challenges the "legalist" paradigm\, which postulates that
  liberal states pursue war crimes tribunals because their decision-makers 
 hold a principled commitment to the rule of law. Kaufman develops an alter
 native theory-"prudentialism"-which contends that any state (liberal or il
 liberal) may support bona fide war crimes tribunals. More generally\, prud
 entialism proposes that states pursue transitional justice options\, not o
 ut of strict adherence to certain principles\, but as a result of a case-s
 pecific balancing of politics\, pragmatics\, and normative beliefs. Kaufma
 n tests these two competing theories through the U.S. experience in six co
 ntexts: Germany and Japan after World War II\, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 
 flight 103\, the 1990-1991 Iraqi offenses against Kuwaitis\, the atrocitie
 s in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s\, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.\n
 \nKaufman demonstrates that political and pragmatic factors featured as or
  more prominently in U.S. transitional justice policy than did U.S. govern
 ment officials' normative beliefs. Kaufman thus concludes that\, at least 
 for the United States\, prudentialism is superior to legalism as an explan
 atory theory in transitional justice policymaking.\n\n\n*About the Author:
 *\nZachary D. Kaufman\, J.D.\, Ph.D.\, is an academic specializing in poli
 tical science\, public policy\, and law. His scholarly work (writing\, tea
 ching\, and speaking) focuses on the fields of international law and inter
 national relations\, including U.S. foreign policy\; international and tra
 nsitional justice\; human rights\; genocide\, war crimes\, crimes against 
 humanity\, and other atrocities\; social entrepreneurship\; and the Great 
 Lakes region of sub-Saharan Africa (particularly Rwanda).\n\nDr. Kaufman i
 s currently a Fellow at Harvard University‘s John F. Kennedy School of G
 overnment‘s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In addi
 tion\, he continues to be a Visiting Fellow at both Yale Law School and Ya
 le University‘s Genocide Studies Program as well as a Term Member of the
  Council on Foreign Relations. Previously\, he taught in Yale University
 ‘s Department of Political Science and George Washington University‘s 
 Elliott School of International Affairs\, and he held fellowships or resea
 rch positions at the U.S. Supreme Court\, Yale Law School\, Harvard Law Sc
 hool\, Yale School of Management\, and Stanford University.\n\n\n
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