Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law: Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk

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Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law: Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk

By Stefan Andersson
Cambridge University Press December 2017

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ISBN-13
9781108409964
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2017
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This collection of scholarly and critical essays about the legal aspects of the Vietnam War explores the crimes of aggression committed by the United States against North Vietnam: war crimes by bombing civilian targets like schools and hospitals and by using napalm, cluster bombs, and Agent Orange; crimes against humanity by moving large parts of the population to so called "Strategic Hamlets"; and genocide.

International Lawyer Richard Falk, who was able to observe these acts in North Vietnam in 1968, uses International Law to show how they occurred. This book brings together essays he has written on the Vietnam War and 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

Acknowledgements
Introduction to the work of Richard Falk by Stefan Andersson
An introduction to this selection by Richard Falk

Part I. The US Role in Vietnam and International Law:
1. A Vietnam settlement: the view from Hanoi
2. US in Vietnam: rationale and law
3. International law and the United States role in the Vietnam War
4. International law and the United States role in Vietnam: A Response to Professor Moore
5. The six legal dimensions of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Part II. War and War Crimes:
6. Appropriating Tet
7. Son My: war crimes and individual responsibility
8. The Cambodian Operation and international law

Part III. The Vietnam War and the Nuremberg Principles:
9. The Nuremberg Defense in the Pentagon Papers case
10. A Nuremberg perspective on the trial of Karl Armstrong
11. Telford Taylor and the legacy of Nuremberg

Part IV. The Legacy of the Vietnam War:
12. Learning from Vietnam
13. The Vietnam syndrome: from the Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq
14. 'The Vietnam Syndrome' the Kerrey Revelations raise anew issues of morality and military power
15. Why the legal debate on the Vietnam War still matters

Index.
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