Klaus Bachmann is Chair of International Politics at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.Aleksandar Fatić is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Writing crisply and making periodic comparisons with the antecedent criminal courts of the 1940s in Germany and Japan, they cover much ground. The outcome is a new and revisionist view of these two courts, giving them credit for some positive developments --D. P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, CHOICE

• Foreword: The starting points: The Nuremberg and the Tokyo Tribunal 1. The Creation of the Tribunals 2. How the Tribunals Work 3. Efficiency: The ICTs and Their Tasks 4. Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change 5. The Legacy of the ICTY and the ICTR

Klaus Bachmann is Chair of International Politics at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.Aleksandar Fatić is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Writing crisply and making periodic comparisons with the antecedent criminal courts of the 1940s in Germany and Japan, they cover much ground. The outcome is a new and revisionist view of these two courts, giving them credit for some positive developments --D. P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, CHOICE

• Foreword: The starting points: The Nuremberg and the Tokyo Tribunal 1. The Creation of the Tribunals 2. How the Tribunals Work 3. Efficiency: The ICTs and Their Tasks 4. Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change 5. The Legacy of the ICTY and the ICTR

Klaus Bachmann is Chair of International Politics at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.Aleksandar Fatić is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Writing crisply and making periodic comparisons with the antecedent criminal courts of the 1940s in Germany and Japan, they cover much ground. The outcome is a new and revisionist view of these two courts, giving them credit for some positive developments --D. P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, CHOICE

• Foreword: The starting points: The Nuremberg and the Tokyo Tribunal 1. The Creation of the Tribunals 2. How the Tribunals Work 3. Efficiency: The ICTs and Their Tasks 4. Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change 5. The Legacy of the ICTY and the ICTR