About the Author:
Adam M. Smith (Bethesda, MD) is an associate at a Washington, DC-based international law firm who has advised presidential candidates, held staff positions with the United Nations and the World Bank, and worked at US embassies in three countries, for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and for the legal adviser to the State Department. He has published in magazines such as Forbes, American Prospect, and New Republic, and such prestigious journals as Harvard International Law Journal, Fletcher Forum, and Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. He has been interviewed by NPR, Reuters, AP, CNN, and others and has a coauthored academic text forthcoming by Routledge.
Review:
Adam Smith has written a wise, persuasive, and yet unsettling book, about how noble humanitarian intentions insulated from local culture, community, and politics often cause perverse unintended consequences. Smith writes as an expert practitioner whose life story and professional experience gives him an unassailable platform from which to analyze both the limitations of the International Criminal Court and its antecedents as models for enforcing humanitarian law and any alternative options to the current system. Anyone committed to peace and justice in the world should read this book. --Andrew Natsios ,Former Presidential Envoy to Sudan, Former Administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
An insightful and provocative challenge for supporters of international justice. An important book for anyone interested in human rights and in attaining justice in the wake of atrocities. --Justice Richard J Goldstone, First Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former-Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
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