"A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States"--

60 Minutes follows a team of FBI investigators into Kosovo where they attempt to collect evidence for war crimes trials. Scott Pelley reports.

Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and illegal immigrants around the world. This Very Short Introduction explains what international law i