Bücher von Yves Beigbeder

Yves Beigbeder sort à peine de sa licence de droit lorsque son oncle, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, juriste français, lui propose d'être son assistant lors du procès de Nuremberg. Assister aux plaidoyers et aux condamnations des grands bourreaux nazis, tombés de leur piédestal, est une expérience frappante pour le jeune homme. La justice internationale et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, avec son héritage difficile, sont devenus les fils conducteurs de toute sa vie, comme il le raconte dans cette autobiographie. Sa longue carrière de haut fonctionnaire dans les institutions internationales (la Food and Agriculture Organization, l'OMS) est marquée par son intérêt pour les grands procès d'un XXe siècle secoué par la décolonisation, les guerres en Europe et les génocides. À son expérience des difficultés et des réussites des organismes transnationaux se mêlent ses connaissances sur le développement du droit international. Aujourd'hui âgé de 98 ans, l'un des derniers témoins de Nuremberg exprime plus que jamais sa conviction profonde de l'intérêt d'une justice internationale.

The book summarizes the work of international criminal courts focusing on the political challenges faced by them. It is a practical, comprehensive manual on the origin and development of international criminal justice and includes the criminal tribunals of Nuremberg, Tokyo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iraq.

The management of international organizations is attracting growing attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN system and International NGOs. Sometimes, this criticism lacks depth or reflects insufficient understanding of these organizations, or is based on narrow, and sometimes biased, internal political concerns of a particular country. International relations theory has insufficiently studied the type of linkages that these organizations provide between international decision-making and Northern fundraising on the one hand, and practical action in the South on the other. As a result, current theory too rarely focuses on the inner functioning of these organizations and is unable to explain the deficiencies and negative outcomes of their work. While the authors identify and describe the pathologies of international organizations in, for example, international diplomacy, fundraising, and implementation, they also stress positive elements, such as their intermediary role. The latter, in particular, could form the basis of more efficient and effective policies, in addition to other recent trends, also described in this volume, that hold hope for a stronger functioning of these organizations in the future. This book presents a long overdue empirical and theoretical overview of criticism on and cures for these organizations. It provides a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to the management of international organizations.