American Immunity - War Crimes and the Limits of International Law

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Hagopian is senior lecturer in history and American studies at Lancaster University! UK and author of The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans! Memorials and the Politics of Healing (University of Massachusetts Press! 2009). Klappentext Patrick Hagopian shows that despite the US role in promulgating universal standards of international law and forming institutions where those standards can be enforced! the US has repeatedly refused to submit its own citizens and troops to the jurisdiction of international tribunals and failed to uphold international standards of justice in its own courts. Zusammenfassung Patrick Hagopian shows that despite the US role in promulgating universal standards of international law and forming institutions where those standards can be enforced! the US has repeatedly refused to submit its own citizens and troops to the jurisdiction of international tribunals and failed to uphold international standards of justice in its own courts.

About the author

Patrick Hagopian is senior lecturer in History and American Studies at Lancaster University and author of The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Hagopian
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9781625340474
• ISBN: 978-1-62534-047-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Culture, Politics, and the Col; Culture, Politics, and the Cold War; Culture, Politics, and the Cold War; Culture and Politics in the Co; Culture, Politics, and the Col
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration