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Revisiting the Vietnam War and international law
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"This collection of scholarly and critical essays about the legal aspects of the Vietnam War explores the crimes of aggression committed by the United States against North Vietnam: war crimes by bo...
"This collection of scholarly and critical essays about the legal aspects of the Vietnam War explores the crimes of aggression committed by the United States against North Vietnam: war crimes by bombing civilian targets like schools and hospitals and by using napalm, cluster bombs, and Agent Orange; crimes against humanity by moving large parts of the population to so called "Strategic Hamlets"; and genocide. International Lawyer Richard Falk, who was able to observe these act in North Vietnam in 1968, uses International Law to show how they occurred. This book brings together essays he has written on the Vietnam War and its relationship to international law, American foreign policy, and the global world order. Falk argues that only a stronger adherence to International Law can save the world from such future tragedies and create a sustainable world order"--
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- Creator
- views and interpretations of Richard Falk ; edited by Stefan Andersson
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- English
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xxxi, 409 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781108297011, 1108409962, 9781108409964, 9781108419154, 1108419151
- OCLC
- ocn995847234
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword : The harmful legacy of lawlessness in Vietnam / Richard Falk -- A Vietnam settlement : the view from Hanoi -- US in Vietnam : rationale and law -- International law and the United States role in the Viet Nam war -- International law and the United States role in Viet Nam : a response to Professor Moore -- The six legal dimensions of the United States involvement in the Vietnam war -- Appropriating Tet -- Son My : war crimes and individual responsibility -- The Cambodian operation and international law -- The Nuremberg defense in the Pentagon papers case -- A Nuremberg perspective on the trial of Karl Armstrong -- Telford Taylor and the legacy of Nuremberg -- Learning from Vietnam -- The Vietnam syndrome : from the Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq -- "The Vietnam syndrome" : the Kerrey revelations raise anew issues of morality and military power -- Why the legal debate on the Vietnam War still matters : the case for revisiting the international law debate