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Abstract
In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a 'humanitarian intervention,' in Afghanistan, 'self-defense,' and in Iraq, it claimed the authority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Yet each of these wars was illegal according to established rules of international law. According to these rules, illegal wars fall within the category of 'supreme international crimes'. So how come the war crimes tribunals never manage to turn their sights on America and always wind up putting America's enemies - 'the usual suspects' - on trial?
This new book by renowned scholar Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
'This closely reasoned and carefully documented study is sad and grim, and necessary. Unless its lessons are heeded by citizens of the rich and powerful states, the fate of the world will be left to the whim of those with the guns and the faith to enforce their will. The prospects are not attractive'
Noam Chomsky
'Exciting, original, and completely convincing. This book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand how the law really works in international affairs, and it throws a great deal of light on those international affairs themselves'
Edward S. Herman
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Contents | 4 | ||
Part I. Illegal Wars/ Collateral Damage | 1 | ||
1. Iraq 2003 | 3 | ||
The Law and the War Against Iraq | 10 | ||
Security Council Authorization | 10 | ||
Self- Defense | 19 | ||
Humanitarian Intervention | 21 | ||
2. Afghanistan 2001 | 29 | ||
Collateral Damage | 46 | ||
3. Kosovo 1999 | 57 | ||
Kosovo | 68 | ||
The Road to Rambouillet | 69 | ||
Racak | 72 | ||
Rambouillet | 80 | ||
Humanitarian Intervention | 89 | ||
Part II. Crimes Against Humanity | 115 | ||
4. The War Crimes Tribunal | 117 | ||
The Holocaust Analogy | 118 | ||
Bosnia and the Birth of the ICTY | 120 | ||
The ICTY at War | 132 | ||
5. The Trial of Milosevic | 147 | ||
Milosevic at The Hague | 152 | ||
Victor's Justice | 160 | ||
6. America Gets Away with Murder | 176 | ||
The Case against NATO | 177 | ||
Crimes against Humanity | 178 | ||
Crimes against the Laws and Customs of War | 180 | ||
Targets | 201 | ||
The Illegality of the War | 202 | ||
7. Rounding up the Usual Suspects while America Gets Away with Murder | 207 | ||
The International Criminal Court | 207 | ||
The Americans Have Ways | 215 | ||
Nuremberg | 219 | ||
Tokyo | 222 | ||
The Pinochet Case | 223 | ||
Belgium | 230 | ||
Justice | 233 | ||
Deterrence | 237 | ||
Truth | 239 | ||
Peace | 242 | ||
Vision | 248 | ||
Notes | 254 | ||
Index | 293 |