Ny bok om USA:s folkrättsbrott 2008-08-13

International Justice and Impunity


Föreningen Afghanistansolidaritet har införskaffat ett dussin exemplar
av en nyutkommen bok som heter International Justice and Impunity.


Den går tillbaka på en konferens som hölls i Paris 2005 ochy är av stort
intresse för alla som arbetar mot kriget i Irak och Afghanistan.

Boken kostar c:a 200 kr på Amazon, men beställer du från föreningen får
du den för samma pris inkl porto. Beställ boken genom att sätta in 200
kr på pg 331324-4, Afghanistansolidaritet.

Boken är redigerad av: Nils Andersson, Daniel lagolnitzer, Vincent
Rivasseau, Diana G. Collier

Med förord av Ramsey Clark,

Medverkar gör bl a Samir Amin, William Blum, Stèphane Hessel, Jan Myrdal,
Michael Parenti, Tadatoshi Akiba (Hirsohimas borgmästare) mfl

Innehållsförteckningen är följande:

Impunity for Power Is the Law of the Jungle /10
PARTI: FROM HIROSHIMA TO GUANTANAMO
Tadatoshi Akiba,
Towards the Abolition of Nuclear Arms / 23 Samir Amin,
The Geostrategy of Contemporary Imperialism / 33 Abraham Behar,
The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons through International Law,
American Blockage, and the Failure of the NPT / 56 Rudolf El-Kareh,
American Policy in the Middle East and Arab World: Force,
Impunity, Lawlessness / 63 Monique Chemillier-Gendreau.
Impunity and Massive Violations of Humanitarian Law
in Vietnam / 72 Les Roberts,
Mortality After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq / 82 Genevieve Sevrin,
Guantanamo, a Model of Illegality / 90 William Blum,
Freeing the World to Death: How the United States
Gets Away With It /101 Pascal Boniface,
The Strategy of the "Clash of Civilizations"/110 Michael Parenti,
Rulers of the Planet: The Real Reasons for the US
Invasion of Iraq /118

PART II: HUMANITARIAN LAW: LEGAL AND MORAL VALUES TO DEFEND
Daniel lagolnitzer
International Law Relative to War and the United States:
A General Survey /127 Robert Charvin,
The Co-optation of Humanitarianism and Its
Legal Consequences /150 Barbara Delcourt,
The Bush Doctrine's Ideological Roots: Posing Problems
for International Humanitarian Law /159

Stephane Hessel,
Reform of the United Nations and Internaitonal Humanitarian
Law/176 Jan Myrdal,
The Necessity of Defending the Rule of Law! /181 Antoine Bernard,
Challenges of the New System of International Criminal
Justice 1186 Nuri Albala,
Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity:
A Principle Unacceptable to the Most Powerful/ 201
PART III: IN PURSUIT OF AN END TO IMPUNITY
Roland Weyl,
On Humanitarian Law / 209 Amy Bartholomew,
"Strategies of the Weak": Contesting Empire's Law through
Litigation under International Humanitarian Law / 214 Karen Parker,
On the Draft UN Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and
Terrorism: / 233 Nils Andersson,
International Humanitarian Law and Terrorism: the Need
to Distinguish Between Combatants and Murderers / 246 Philip Grant,
Law Versus the National Interest: The Role of NGOs / 255 Jean Bricmont,
Right of Intervention or International Law I264 Pedro A. Garcia-Bilbao,
The Right to Interfere in the Context of Imperial Impunity / 273 Vincent Rivasseau,
Towards an International Agency for the Evaluation of the
Sufferings Caused by War/282 Nils Andersson, Daniel lagolnitzer, Vincent Rivasseau,
What Can Be Done Today?/291
CONTRIBUTORS / 294 INDEX OF AUTHORS / 298