International Justice and Impunity: The Case of the United States - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932863574 ISBN 13: 9780932863577

Publisher: Clarity Press, 2008

Synopsis

Is the US leading humanity back to a future without rules or values, based only on the will of the strongest? A conference held at the Palais Bourbon in Paris, chaired by UN Special Rapporteur Theo Van Boven, and renowned French scholar Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and welcomed by President Jimmy Carter, addressed the case of the United States, in the context of international humanitarian law, the UN Charter, and the new International Criminal Court. Once the champion of the UN, the US now: disregards the Geneva Conventions uses international humanitarian law as a pretext for intervention actively opposes the International Criminal Court creates no-law zones such as Guantanamo forces states to sign bilateral agreements granting immunity to US citizens. With a damning indictment of current US foreign policy, the presenters suggest action against the new wave of US empire building. Presenters include former Attorney-General Ramsey Clark, Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, Les Roberts, Amy Bartholomew, Robert Charvin, William Bourdon, and many other distinguished international figures.

About this title

From the Publisher:

First published by L'Harmattan, this book compiles the presentations delivered at a conference on International Justice and Impunity: The Case of the United States, held at the Palais Bourbon in Paris, chaired by UN Special Rapporteur Theo Van Boven, and renowned French scholar, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, organized by the Association for the Defense of International Humanitarian Law (ADIF) with support from and participation of a wide range of international-legal organizations and notables. Prominent presenters include former Attorney-General Ramsey Clark, Tadatoshi Akiba, the present mayor of Hiroshima, Samir Amin, William Blum, Michael Parenti, Les Roberts, Amy Bartholomew, Robert Charvin, William Bourdon, Jean Bricmont, and Genevieve Sevrin (President, Amnesty International, France) and other professors of political science and international law or directors of international advocacy organizations.

About the Author:

Co-Director of the Association for the Defense of International Humanitarian Law (ADIF)

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarity Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0932863574
• ISBN 13: 9780932863577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Nils Andersson, Daniel Iagolnitzer, Diana G. Collier