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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Do International Criminal Courts Actually Deter War Crimes? | Interview with Jacqueline McAllister
Description: I encountered a study in the journal, International Security by Dr. Jacqueline McAllister that examines whether or not international war crimes tribunals actually deter and prevent war crimes and crimes against humanity. Jacqueline McAllister is an assistant professor of political science at Kenyon College. Her article, titled "Deterring Wartime Atrocities: Hard Lessons from the Yugoslav Tribunal" examines whether or not the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, known as the ICTY, was able to deter war crimes during the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s.  She finds that, indeed, there were some circumstances in...