The Judge and the Historian subject-international-politics Terrorism has existed as a

The Judge and the Historian subject international politics Terrorism has existed as a Terrorism has existed as a tactic since then and has essentially only been adapted through the use of new technologies and methods unable to transcend the petty grandeur of its nation states even in the face of unprecedented threats to peace the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state’s case in this late twentieth century political show trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola’s famous J’accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth century