Revisiting the Vietnam war and international law : views and interpretations of Richard Falk / edited by Stefan Andersson.
2018
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Revisiting the Vietnam war and international law : views and interpretations of Richard Falk / edited by Stefan Andersson.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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1 online resource (xxxi, 409 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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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.
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.
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.
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English
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9781108297011 ebook
9781108419154 (hardback)
9781108409964 (paperback)
9781108419154 (hardback)
9781108409964 (paperback)
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