We are pleased to announce that Dr. Benjamin N. Schiff has been awarded the 2009 Friends of ACUNS book award for his book Building the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Building the International Criminal Court analyzes the ICC, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers’ insights to explain the Court’s origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges. The ICC is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity’s worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death; it is charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims; and it seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years. Other, temporary, single-purpose criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and special courts have come and gone, but the ICC is the only permanent inheritor of the Nuremberg legacy.
Dr. Schiff is a Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He focuses on international politics and international organizations. He has published books on the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, on Afrikaners in South Africa at the end of apartheid.
Friends of ACUNS 2008 Book Award The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to ProtectDr. Ramesh Thakur, (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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Friends of ACUNS 5th Annual Book Award
The Friends of ACUNS Award will go to the author(s) or editor(s) of the best book that focuses on some aspect of the United Nations and/or the United Nations System.
The book must be published in the last 3 years to be eligible (since Jan. 2007) and received by March 1, 2010.
Please send 3 copies of the book to: Jean Krasno,Treasurer, Friends of ACUNS International Security Studies, Yale University 31 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT 06511
Nominations can be made by the author or by someone else. Please note that only books will be eligible.
The winner will be announced at the ACUNS 2010 Annual Meeting in Vienna on June 3-5, 2010.
For more information on the Friends of ACUNS Book Award please contact Jean Krasno at jean.krasno@yale.edu.