SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Plesch, Dan (2017) Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Plesch, Dan (2010) America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace. London: I.B.Tauris.

Plesch, Dan and Blankenburg, Stephanie (2008) How to make corporations accountable. Liverpool: The Institute of Employment Rights.

Plesch, Dan, Austin, Greg, Grant, Fiona and Sullivan, Stephen (2006) Bio-energy and CAP Reform: The Gains to Europe and Africa. London: Foreign Policy Centre.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Plesch, Dan and Weiss, Tom, eds. (2015) Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations. Oxon; New York: Routledge. (Global Institutions)

Plesch, Dan, ed. (2008) International Relations. September 2008, Volume 22, No. 3. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore: Sage.

Book Chapters

Plesch, Dan and Miletic, K (2019) 'The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament.' In: Bolton, M, Benjamin-Britton, T and Njeri, S, (eds.), Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament. Cham: Palgrave, pp. 199-224.

Plesch, Dan and Owen, Leah (2019) 'The United Nations War Crimes Commission: a model for complementarity today?' In: Griech-polelle, B, (ed.), The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and its Policy Consequences Today. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Weiss, Thomas G., Plesch, Dan and Owen, Leah (2016) 'The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice.' In: Ziccardi Capaldo, Giuliana, (ed.), Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2015. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 71-109.

Plesch, Dan (2015) 'Building on the 1943-48 United Nations War Crimes Commission.' In: Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 79-98. (Global Institutions)

Rofe, J. Simon (2015) 'Pre-war and Wartime Planning.' In: Plesch, Dan and Weiss, Thomas G., (eds.), Past as Prelude? Wartime History and the Future United Nations. New York: Routledge.

Roy, Pallavi (2014) 'Financing Gaps, Competitiveness and Capabilities: Why Bretton Woods needs a Radical Rethink.' In: Weiss, Thomas and Plesch, Dan, (eds.), Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations. Basingstoke: Routledge, pp. 160-178. (Routledge global institutions series ; 94)

Plesch, Dan and Shattler, Shanti (2014) 'Before Nuremberg: Considering the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948.' In: Bergsmo, Morten, Cheah, Wui Ling and Yi, Ping, (eds.), Historical origins of international criminal law. Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, pp. 437-473. (FICHL publication series)

Plesch, Dan (2009) 'United Nations (and League of Nations).' In: Kazin, Michael, Edwards, Rebecca and Rothman, Adam, (eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Plesch, Dan (2009) 'State Failure, Anarchy, War and Genocide.' In: Al-Rodhan, Nayef, (ed.), Potential Global Strategic Catastrophes: balancing transnational responsibilities and burden-sharing with sovereignty. Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 233-252. (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

Journal Article

Acharaya, Amitav and Plesch, Dan (2020) 'The United Nations: Managing and Re-shaping a New World Order.' Global Governance, 26 (2). pp. 221-235.

Plesch, Dan (2016) 'The South and disarmament at the UN.' Third World Quarterly, 37 (7). pp. 1203-1218.

Plesch, Dan and Weiss, Thomas G. (2015) '1945’s Forgotten Insight: Multilateralism as Realist Necessity.' International Studies Perspectives, 17 (1). pp. 4-16.

Plesch, Dan and Weiss, Tom (2015) '1945’s Lesson: ‘Good-Enough’ Global Governance Ain’t Good Enough.' Global Governance, 21 (2). pp. 197-204.

Plesch, Dan and Sattler, Shanti (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). pp. 17-43.

Plesch, Dan, Sácouto, Susana and Lasco, Chante (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). pp. 349-381.

Plesch, Dan and Sattler, Shanti (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). pp. 203-223.

Blankenburg, Stephanie, Plesch, Dan and Wilkinson, Frank (2010) 'Limited liability and the modern corporation in theory and in practice.' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34 (5). pp. 821-837.

Plesch, Dan (2008) 'How the UN beat Hitler and prepared the peace.' Global Society, 22 (1). pp. 137-158.

Plesch, Dan (2008) 'Introducing the Concept of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone.' International Relations, 22 (3). pp. 323-329.

Plesch, Dan and Christiansen, Poul-Erik (2008) 'A Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East: Reflections on a Project of Academic Applied International Relations.' International Relations, 22 (3). pp. 391-396.

Blankenburg, Stephanie, Plesch, Dan and Sakamoto, E Elize (2007) 'Their gain and your pain: the limitations of limited liability.' Tribune. p. 15.

Blankenburg, Stephanie and Plesch, Dan (2007) 'Corporate rights and responsibilities: restoring legal accountability.' openDemocracy.

Plesch, Dan (2005) 'Corporate social Responsibility: questions of equality before the law, property rights and de-regulation.' Accountancy Business and the Public Interest, 4 (2). pp. 1-27.

Monographs and Working Papers

Plesch, Dan (2008) Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation. Westminster: House of Commons.

Plesch, Dan and Blankenburg, Stephanie (2007) Corporate rights and responsibilities: restoring legal accountability. London: the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce).

Plesch, Dan and Butcher, Martin (2007) Considering a war with Iran. CISD.

Plesch, Dan (2006) The Future of Britain's WMD. London: The Foreign Policy Centre.

Book Reviews

Plesch, Dan (2016) 'Review of: Andrew Buchanan. American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781107044142.' H-Diplo Roundtable Review, XVII (15).

Other

Plesch, Dan (2018) 'Could the US win World War III without using nuclear weapons?' The Conversation (Apr 19).