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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falk, Richard A., author.

Contributor:

Andersson, Stefan, editor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Law and legislation.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 409 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108297011

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.