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Financing Gaps, Competitiveness and Capabilities: Why Bretton Woods needs a Radical Rethink (2014)
Book Chapter
Roy, P. (2014). Financing Gaps, Competitiveness and Capabilities: Why Bretton Woods needs a Radical Rethink. In T. G. Weiss, & D. Plesch (Eds.), Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations (160-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315883809-20

The international financial institutions (IFIs) of the Bretton Woods System (BWS), namely the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (the Bank henceforth), were meant to overcome collective action problems among countries and help solve... Read More about Financing Gaps, Competitiveness and Capabilities: Why Bretton Woods needs a Radical Rethink.

The Relevance of the United Nations War Crimes Commission to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Today (2014)
Journal Article
Plesch, D., Sácouto, S., & Lasco, C. (2014). The Relevance of the United Nations War Crimes Commission to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Today. Criminal Law Forum, 25(1-2), 349-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-014-9232-1

This article discusses aspects of the origin and development of jurisprudence relating to the prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the context of international criminal law. It examines a selection of archival material from the U... Read More about The Relevance of the United Nations War Crimes Commission to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Today.

A New Paradigm of Customary International Criminal Law: The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948 and its Associated Courts and Tribunals (2014)
Journal Article
Plesch, D., & Sattler, S. (2014). A New Paradigm of Customary International Criminal Law: The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948 and its Associated Courts and Tribunals. Criminal Law Forum, 25(1-2), 17-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-014-9223-2

This article focuses on the United Nations War Crimes Commission’s significant contribution to the development of customary international criminal law defined by the development of international legal standards and proceedings to combat impunity and... Read More about A New Paradigm of Customary International Criminal Law: The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948 and its Associated Courts and Tribunals.

Before Nuremberg: Considering the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948 (2014)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D., & Shattler, S. (2014). Before Nuremberg: Considering the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948. In M. Bergsmo, W. L. Cheah, & P. Yi (Eds.), Historical origins of international criminal law (437-473). Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher

Changing the Paradigm of International Criminal Law: Considering the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948 (2013)
Journal Article
Plesch, D., & Sattler, S. (2013). Changing the Paradigm of International Criminal Law: Considering the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948. International Community Law Review, 15(2), 203-223. https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341252

More than 2,000 international criminal trials were conducted at the end of World War II in addition to those held by the International Military Tribunals (IMTs) at Nuremburg and Tokyo. Fifteen national tribunals conducted these trials in conjunction... Read More about Changing the Paradigm of International Criminal Law: Considering the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948.

Limited liability and the modern corporation in theory and in practice (2010)
Journal Article
Blankenburg, S., Plesch, D., & Wilkinson, F. (2010). Limited liability and the modern corporation in theory and in practice. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(5), 821-837. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beq028

America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace (2010)
Book
Plesch, D. (2010). America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755624461

On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form. Yet today many people have forgotten that the UN was forged in the midst of the... Read More about America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace.

United Nations (and League of Nations) (2009)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D. (2009). United Nations (and League of Nations). In M. Kazin, R. Edwards, & A. Rothman (Eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton University Press

The United Nations was created in 1942 as a political military alliance and went on to create a range of global institutions including those we know today. It tried to overcome the weaknesses of the League by creating more enforcement powers. Despite... Read More about United Nations (and League of Nations).

State Failure, Anarchy, War and Genocide (2009)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D. (2009). State Failure, Anarchy, War and Genocide. In N. Al-Rodhan (Ed.), Potential Global Strategic Catastrophes: balancing transnational responsibilities and burden-sharing with sovereignty (233-252). Lit Verlag

Global war and major regional war has been a major cause of these problems. It is dangerous that this problem is now rarely considered by publics, elites and the media as the latent conditions remain, especially nuclear weapons. History tells us tha... Read More about State Failure, Anarchy, War and Genocide.

International Relations. September 2008, Volume 22, No. 3 (2008)
Other
(2008). International Relations. September 2008, Volume 22, No. 3. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore