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How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
Michael Mandel
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Description for How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
Paperback. Critical account of the international war crimes movement. 'Exciting, original and completely convincing.' Edward Herman Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JWXK; LBHG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745321516
SKU
V9780745321516
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About Michael Mandel
Michael Mandel is Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. He has also taught law at universities in Italy and in Israel, and frequently appears as a commentator on radio and television both in Canada and abroad. In 1999 he led an international effort to have NATO leaders prosecuted for crimes against humanity committed during ... Read more
Reviews for How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
'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 'This closely reasoned and carefully documented study is sad and grim, and necessary. Unless its lessons are heeded by ... Read more
Edward S. Herman 'This closely reasoned and carefully documented study is sad and grim, and necessary. Unless its lessons are heeded by ... Read more