Bibliograph

Revisiting the Vietnam war and international law, views and interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson

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Revisiting the Vietnam war and international law, views and interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Revisiting the Vietnam war and international law

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by Stefan Andersson

Sub title

views and interpretations of Richard Falk

Summary

This collection of scholarly and critical essays about the legal aspects of the Vietnam War explores various crimes committed by the United States against North Vietnam: war of aggression; war crimes in bombing civilian targets such as schools and hospitals, and using napalm, cluster bombs, and Agent Orange; crimes against humanity in moving large parts of the population to so-called strategic hamlets; and alleged genocide and ecocide. International lawyer Richard Falk, who observed these acts personally in North Vietnam in 1968, uses international law to show how they came about. This book brings together essays that he has written on the Vietnam War and on 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

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Stefan Andersson -- Preface : 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

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