Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War - The Legal Cynicism of Criminal Militarism

This accessible account of the war in Iraq argues that US military actions constituted a criminal war of aggression.

List of contents

Prologue; 1. The reign of terror; 2. A shadow of hope; 3. Judging torture in Iraq; 4. Night falls on Baghdad; 5. The separate peace of the Shia; 6. Legal cynicism and Sunni militancy; Epilogue.

About the author

John Hagan is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, Illinois and Co-Director of the Center on Law and Globalization at the American Bar Foundation. His previous Cambridge University Press books are Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (with Bill McCarthy) and Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (with Wenona Rymond-Richmond). Hagan is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. In 2015, he received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in Gold, a lifetime achievement award, from the German Criminological Society.Joshua Kaiser is a Law and Social Science Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and a JD-PhD candidate in law and sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois. His research focuses on the sociology and criminology of state control and state violence, both in the United States and internationally.Anna Hanson is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois. Her research focuses on issues of terrorism and human rights.

Summary

From the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib to unnecessary attacks on civilians - both predominately targeted at Arab Sunnis - this book argues that the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq constituted a criminal war of aggression.

Product details

• Authors: John Hagan, John Kaiser Hagan, Anna Hanson, Hanson Anna, Joshua Kaiser, Kaiser Joshua
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107104532
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10453-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, c 2000 to c 2009, Iraq, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law