Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice

Ruti G. Teitel

ISBN 10: 0197797555 / ISBN 13: 9780197797556

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, US, 2025

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Throughout its history, the growing influence and significance of the United States on the world stage coincided with its legacy of human rights violations. However, with each momentous societal shift America encountered- its independence from Great Britain, the Civil War, two World Wars, and the fall of the Soviet communist bloc- Presidents have taken the opportunity to address the atrocities of America's past. Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice: An American Legacy of Responsibility and Reconciliation provides a wide-ranging look at how American Presidents not only influence foreign policy but leverage their power and influence to to address the challenges of political violence and transition globally. Professor Ruti G. Teitel uses examples throughout American history to demonstrate how executives have acted as visionaries in their approach to transitional justice from George Washington to Barack Obama. In exploring how Presidents advanced peace-making efforts in the past, this book shows how executives of the future might do the same. Professor Teitel is a leading authority on transitional justice, establishing it as a scholarly field of inquiry. At a time when America's global leadership is subject to significant critical challenge, this latest volume illuminates the importance of transitional justice in foreign policy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197797555
• ISBN 13: 9780197797556
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 268 grams

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Synopsis

Throughout its history, the growing influence and significance of the United States on the world stage coincided with its legacy of human rights violations. However, with each momentous societal shift America encountered- its independence from Great Britain, the Civil War, two World Wars, and the fall of the Soviet communist bloc- Presidents have taken the opportunity to address the atrocities of America's past.

Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice: An American Legacy of Responsibility and Reconciliation provides a wide-ranging look at how American Presidents not only influence foreign policy but leverage their power and influence to to address the challenges of political violence and transition globally. Professor Ruti G. Teitel uses examples throughout American history to demonstrate how executives have acted as visionaries in their approach to transitional justice from George Washington to Barack Obama. In exploring how Presidents advanced peace-making efforts in the past, this book shows how executives of the future might do the same.

Professor Teitel is a leading authority on transitional justice, establishing it as a scholarly field of inquiry. At a time when America's global leadership is subject to significant critical challenge, this latest volume illuminates the importance of transitional justice in foreign policy.

About the Author

Ruti G. Teitel is the Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, and a lecturer in the graduate program in international relations at New York University. She is the author of the now classic work, Transitional Justice, as well as of Humanity's Law and Globalizing Transitional Justice. Teitel is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.