The Costs of War : International Law, the UN, and World Order After Iraq


Richard. Falk
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2012.
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1 online resource (208 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; The Costs of War; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. International Law: Power, Justice, and Stability; Chapter 2. The Surprising Revival of the Just War Framework; Chapter 3. Reviving Punitive Peace: The Sanctions Regime (1991-2003); Chapter 4. Toward Regional War; Chapter 5. What Future for the UN Charter System of War Prevention?: Reflections on the Iraq War; Chapter 6. Engaging Normative Consciousness; Chapter 7. Demystifying Iraq; Chapter 8. Democratizing the Middle East; Chapter 9. Executing Saddam Hussein. - Chapter 10. Legality and Legitimacy: The Quest for Principled Flexibility and RestraintChapter 11. Humanitarian Intervention?; Chapter 12. The Criminal Accountability of Leaders; Chapter 13. World Tribunal on Iraq: Truth, Law, and Justice; Notes; Index. - In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law, human rights, and democracy.A new introduction provides an overview as well as a sense of the current context and reflects on the internal prospects for Iraq and on the logic of an early US military and political withdrawal.Having been revised and updated to take account of the march of events, the essays are organized into the following sections:Part 1 addresses th
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9780415955089. - 9780415955096

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