Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Samir Amin, William Blum, Jan Myrdal, Michael Parenti, Jean Bricmont, Les Roberts, Genevieve Sevrin (Amnesty International, France), Antoine Bernard (International Federation of Human Rights), Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
"Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it; those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it."
KOFI ANNAN
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND
IMPUNITY
The Case of the United States
EDITORS:
NILS ANDERSSON, DANIEL IAGOLNITZER, DIANA G. COLLIER
ISBN: 978-0-932863-57-7 || Published 2008 || 304 pages
SYNOPSIS
This book reflects a primary response by international civil society to US disregard for international law. It is a damning indictment of the Hiroshima’s of our time. It provides a cogent elaboration of the international legal values to be defended, for humanity to triumph over the new wave of global barbarism brought about by the efforts of the United States to consolidate and extend the dimensions of its empire.
Once the champion of the United Nations, the United States now skirts the Geneva Conventions, uses international humanitarian law as a pretext for intervention, engages in bombardments causing grave civilian losses, and seeks to expand its options in relation to torture while continuing to render prisoners to countries known for its practice. Having failed in its effort to block the establishment of the International Criminal Court, the United States still refuses to ratify its Statuteeven though the ICC Statute modified the rules of the 1977 Geneva Protocol and The Hague in an effort to satisfy the trajectory pursued by U.S. foreign policy.
The United States’ pursuit of a unilateral imperial policy based on military force destroys the credibility of the nascent international legal framework. Rather, the US is leading the world by example toward a future without rules or values, where humanity is subject to the whims of the more powerful.
Former government officials, scholars, advocates and directors of international organizations operating at the highest level in the areas of international humanitarian law address the relevant international law, the threats thereto by US policy, its ramifications for the world system, and possible avenues of legal recourse.
ISBN: 978-0-932863-57-7 Price: $21.95
THE EDITORS
NILS ANDERSSON and DANIEL IAGOLNITZER
Association for the Defense of International Humanitarian Law (ADIF)
DIANA G. COLLIER
Editorial Director, Clarity Press, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Nils Andersson, Daniel Iagolnitzer, VIncent Rivasseau, Diana G. Collier
Preface
Ramsey Clark,
Impunity for Power Is the Law of the Jungle
PART I: FROM HIROSHIMA TO GUANTANAMO
Tadatoshi Akiba,
Towards the Abolition of Nuclear Arms: A Universal Action
Samir Amin,
The Geostrategy of Contemporary Imperialism
Abraham Behar,
The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Through International Law, the American Blockage, the Failure of the NPT
Rudolf El Kareh,
American Policy in the Middle East and Arab World: Force, Impunity, Law
Monique Chemillier-Gendreau,
Impunity and Massive Violations of Humanitarian Law in Vietnam
Les Roberts,
Mortality After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Geneviève Sevrin,
Guantanamo, a Model of Illegality
William Blum,
Freeing the World to Death: How the United States Gets Away With It
Pascal Boniface,
The Strategy of the “Clash of Civilizations”
Michael Parenti,
Rulers of the Planet
PART II: HUMANITARIAN LAW: LEGAL AND MORAL VALUES TO DEFEND
Daniel Iagolnitzer
International Law Relative to War and the United States: A General Survey
Robert Charvin,
The Co-optation of Humanitarianism and Its Legal Consequences
Barbara Delcourt,
International Humanitarian Law and the Ordeal of Neo-Conservative Ideology
Jan Myrdal,
The Necessity of Defending the Rule of Law!
Antoine Bernard,
What Is at Stake in the New System of International Criminal Justice
Nuri Albala,
Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity: A Principle Unacceptable to the Most Powerful
PART III: IN PURSUIT OF AN END TO IMPUNITY
Roland Weyl,
No Judicial Progress Is Beyond the Power of the Peoples
Karen Parker,
On the Draft UN Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Terrorism:
Nils Andersson,
International Humanitarian Law and Terrorism: the Need to Distinguish Between Combatants and Murderers
Amy Bartholomew,
“Strategies of the Weak”: Contesting Empire’s Law through Litigation under International Humanitarian Law
Philip Grant,
Law Versus the National Interest: The Role of NGOs
Jean Bricmont,
Right of Intervention or International Law
Pedro García-Bilbao,
The Right of Interference and National Sovereignty in the Context of Imperial Impunity
Vincent Rivasseau,
Towards an International Agency for the Evaluation of the Sufferings Caused by War
Nils Andersson, Daniel Iagolnitzer, Vincent Rivasseau,
What Can Be Done Today?
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS
CONTRIBUTORS BIOS
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