Kenneth A Rodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1157073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth A Rodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodman |
| SIGNATURE | RODMAN K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability
When Justice Leads, Does Politics Follow
One of the arguments for international prosecution of criminal violence regardless of political context is the presumed normative pull of global justice, which can stigmatize targeted leaders to both international and domestic audiences, leading to their marginalization. However, the examples most closely associated with this argument — Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić (arrest warrants issued in 1995), Slobodan Milošević (arrest warrant unsealed…
How Politics Shapes the Contributions of Justice
The International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) established a number of precedents in international criminal law, as detailed by Darryl Robinson and Gillian MacNeil.1 They also set the template for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other tribunals as to how politics can both empower and constrain international prosecution and determine its potential contribution to peace.The lesson of the ICTY is t…
Intervention and the ‘Justice Cascade’
Justice as a Dialogue Between Law and Politics
Despite legalist claims that it should be independent of politics, the International Criminal Court needs to operate within rather than above international strategies of conflict resolution. That is because of the challenges it confronts in the two kinds of relationships it has with states on whose territory it is investigating crimes c adversarial, where it examines official wrongdoing by an entrenched regime, and cooperative, when states refer …
Justice is Interventionist
The Special Court for Sierra Leone’s conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and its prosecution of perpetrators regardless of their political alignment have been hailed as milestones in the diffusion of international criminal justice norms. Yet what made these achievements possible were interventionist strategies by Western governments and international and regional institutions to defeat the rebellion in Sierra Leone and bring ab…
Why the ICC Should Operate Within Peace Processes
Is it ethical for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to consider political factors, such as peace processes, in selecting situations to investigate or cases to prosecute? During the early years of the court, a number of documents and statements from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) suggested that there were occasions when it was. Two OTP policy papers issued in 2003 recommended that the prosecutor assess “all circumstances…
Is Peace in the Interests of Justice? The Case for Broad Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
The argument against factoring peace processes into the discretion of the ICC Prosecutor is based on the premise that international law can be decontextualized from international politics and that in doing so will have superior consequences in terms of deterring atrocity and in consolidating peace. This view is at odds with the history of international criminal tribunals and the cases currently under review by the ICC. Those episodes demonstrate …
Compromising Justice
The critics of the ICC in the Bush administration and its supporters within the human rights community have one thing in common: they assume that the ICC can evolve into a powerful institution independent of states, either to constrain American power or to act on a duty to prosecute to end impunity for perpetrators. Both overestimate the ability of the court to pursue a legalism divorced from power realities. The former attribute to the court pow…
Sanctions beyond Borders
Part 1 Extraterritorial Sanctions from the Early Cold War Era through the Pipeline Sanctions Chapter 2 Extraterritorial Sanctions: Policy Rationales and Legal Controversies Chapter 3 Sanctions at Bay? The Rise and Partial Decline of Extraterritorial Sanctions Chapter 4 Sanctions Defiant? The Reagan Administration, Extraterritorial Sanctions and the Lessons of the Pipeline Case Part 5 Contemporary Case Studies Chapter 6 The Decline and Partial Ret…
Think Globally, Punish Locally”
The traditional realist paradigm holds that the sovereign nation-state is the principal political and legal unit in the world community. Reflecting this tradition, most studies of economic sanctions are state-centered. They assume that states exercise control over their national corporations to deny economic resources to other states. Within this framework, nongovernmental human rights organizations become involved only as interest groups, lobbyi…
Sanctions at bay? Hegemonic decline, multinational corporations, and U.S. economic sanctions since the pipeline case
One of the lessons drawn by many scholars from the 1982 U.S. sanctions against the Soviet-European gas pipeline was that the decline of American hegemony and the global spread of American business placed the overseas networks of U.S. multinational corporations beyond the control of the U.S. government for the purposes of economic sanctions. Through systematically examining three subsequent sanctions efforts (Nicaragua, Libya, and South Africa), t…
Public and Private Sanctions Against South Africa
This article examines the role of nonstate actors in U.S. economic statecraft toward South Africa, both as constraints on state initiatives and as autonomous actors capable of directly influencing world politics. In so doing, it challenges one of the central premises of the dominant realist approach to international relations -that is, that states are the only significant actors in the global arena and that all other actors can only have signific…
Sanctity versus Sovereignty
Journal Article Sanctity versus Sovereignty: The United States and the Nationalization of Natural Resource Investments. By Kenneth A. Rodman. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xix + 403 pp. $45.00.) Get access Carl P. Parrini Carl P. Parrini Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Page 653, https://doi.org/10.23…
Sanctions beyond Borders
Part 1 Extraterritorial Sanctions from the Early Cold War Era through the Pipeline Sanctions Chapter 2 Extraterritorial Sanctions: Policy Rationales and Legal Controversies Chapter 3 Sanctions at Bay? The Rise and Partial Decline of Extraterritorial Sanctions Chapter 4 Sanctions Defiant? The Reagan Administration, Extraterritorial Sanctions and the Lessons of the Pipeline Case Part 5 Contemporary Case Studies Chapter 6 The Decline and Partial Ret…
Think Globally, Punish Locally”
The traditional realist paradigm holds that the sovereign nation-state is the principal political and legal unit in the world community. Reflecting this tradition, most studies of economic sanctions are state-centered. They assume that states exercise control over their national corporations to deny economic resources to other states. Within this framework, nongovernmental human rights organizations become involved only as interest groups, lobbyi…
Public and Private Sanctions Against South Africa
This article examines the role of nonstate actors in U.S. economic statecraft toward South Africa, both as constraints on state initiatives and as autonomous actors capable of directly influencing world politics. In so doing, it challenges one of the central premises of the dominant realist approach to international relations -that is, that states are the only significant actors in the global arena and that all other actors can only have signific…
Justice as a Dialogue Between Law and Politics
Despite legalist claims that it should be independent of politics, the International Criminal Court needs to operate within rather than above international strategies of conflict resolution. That is because of the challenges it confronts in the two kinds of relationships it has with states on whose territory it is investigating crimes c adversarial, where it examines official wrongdoing by an entrenched regime, and cooperative, when states refer …
Is Peace in the Interests of Justice? The Case for Broad Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
The argument against factoring peace processes into the discretion of the ICC Prosecutor is based on the premise that international law can be decontextualized from international politics and that in doing so will have superior consequences in terms of deterring atrocity and in consolidating peace. This view is at odds with the history of international criminal tribunals and the cases currently under review by the ICC. Those episodes demonstrate …
Compromising Justice
The critics of the ICC in the Bush administration and its supporters within the human rights community have one thing in common: they assume that the ICC can evolve into a powerful institution independent of states, either to constrain American power or to act on a duty to prosecute to end impunity for perpetrators. Both overestimate the ability of the court to pursue a legalism divorced from power realities. The former attribute to the court pow…
When Justice Leads, Does Politics Follow
One of the arguments for international prosecution of criminal violence regardless of political context is the presumed normative pull of global justice, which can stigmatize targeted leaders to both international and domestic audiences, leading to their marginalization. However, the examples most closely associated with this argument — Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić (arrest warrants issued in 1995), Slobodan Milošević (arrest warrant unsealed…
Sanctity versus Sovereignty
Journal Article Sanctity versus Sovereignty: The United States and the Nationalization of Natural Resource Investments. By Kenneth A. Rodman. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xix + 403 pp. $45.00.) Get access Carl P. Parrini Carl P. Parrini Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Page 653, https://doi.org/10.23…
Public and Private Sanctions Against South Africa
This article examines the role of nonstate actors in U.S. economic statecraft toward South Africa, both as constraints on state initiatives and as autonomous actors capable of directly influencing world politics. In so doing, it challenges one of the central premises of the dominant realist approach to international relations -that is, that states are the only significant actors in the global arena and that all other actors can only have signific…
Sanctions at bay? Hegemonic decline, multinational corporations, and U.S. economic sanctions since the pipeline case
One of the lessons drawn by many scholars from the 1982 U.S. sanctions against the Soviet-European gas pipeline was that the decline of American hegemony and the global spread of American business placed the overseas networks of U.S. multinational corporations beyond the control of the U.S. government for the purposes of economic sanctions. Through systematically examining three subsequent sanctions efforts (Nicaragua, Libya, and South Africa), t…
Think Globally, Punish Locally”
The traditional realist paradigm holds that the sovereign nation-state is the principal political and legal unit in the world community. Reflecting this tradition, most studies of economic sanctions are state-centered. They assume that states exercise control over their national corporations to deny economic resources to other states. Within this framework, nongovernmental human rights organizations become involved only as interest groups, lobbyi…
Sanctions beyond Borders
Part 1 Extraterritorial Sanctions from the Early Cold War Era through the Pipeline Sanctions Chapter 2 Extraterritorial Sanctions: Policy Rationales and Legal Controversies Chapter 3 Sanctions at Bay? The Rise and Partial Decline of Extraterritorial Sanctions Chapter 4 Sanctions Defiant? The Reagan Administration, Extraterritorial Sanctions and the Lessons of the Pipeline Case Part 5 Contemporary Case Studies Chapter 6 The Decline and Partial Ret…
Compromising Justice
The critics of the ICC in the Bush administration and its supporters within the human rights community have one thing in common: they assume that the ICC can evolve into a powerful institution independent of states, either to constrain American power or to act on a duty to prosecute to end impunity for perpetrators. Both overestimate the ability of the court to pursue a legalism divorced from power realities. The former attribute to the court pow…
Is Peace in the Interests of Justice? The Case for Broad Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
The argument against factoring peace processes into the discretion of the ICC Prosecutor is based on the premise that international law can be decontextualized from international politics and that in doing so will have superior consequences in terms of deterring atrocity and in consolidating peace. This view is at odds with the history of international criminal tribunals and the cases currently under review by the ICC. Those episodes demonstrate …
Why the ICC Should Operate Within Peace Processes
Is it ethical for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to consider political factors, such as peace processes, in selecting situations to investigate or cases to prosecute? During the early years of the court, a number of documents and statements from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) suggested that there were occasions when it was. Two OTP policy papers issued in 2003 recommended that the prosecutor assess “all circumstances…
Justice is Interventionist
The Special Court for Sierra Leone’s conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and its prosecution of perpetrators regardless of their political alignment have been hailed as milestones in the diffusion of international criminal justice norms. Yet what made these achievements possible were interventionist strategies by Western governments and international and regional institutions to defeat the rebellion in Sierra Leone and bring ab…
Intervention and the ‘Justice Cascade’
Justice as a Dialogue Between Law and Politics
Despite legalist claims that it should be independent of politics, the International Criminal Court needs to operate within rather than above international strategies of conflict resolution. That is because of the challenges it confronts in the two kinds of relationships it has with states on whose territory it is investigating crimes c adversarial, where it examines official wrongdoing by an entrenched regime, and cooperative, when states refer …
How Politics Shapes the Contributions of Justice
The International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) established a number of precedents in international criminal law, as detailed by Darryl Robinson and Gillian MacNeil.1 They also set the template for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other tribunals as to how politics can both empower and constrain international prosecution and determine its potential contribution to peace.The lesson of the ICTY is t…
When Justice Leads, Does Politics Follow
One of the arguments for international prosecution of criminal violence regardless of political context is the presumed normative pull of global justice, which can stigmatize targeted leaders to both international and domestic audiences, leading to their marginalization. However, the examples most closely associated with this argument — Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić (arrest warrants issued in 1995), Slobodan Milošević (arrest warrant unsealed…
International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability
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