The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy

✍ Scribed by Margaret Crahan, John Goering, Thomas G. Weiss

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Wars on Terrorism and Iraq provides a timely and critical analysis of the impact of the wars on terrorism and Iraq on human rights particularly internationally, as well as related tensions in U.S. foreign policy.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Foreword by Mary Robinson......Page 14
Preface......Page 20
List of abbreviations......Page 23
Introduction......Page 24
The serendipity of war, human rights, and sovereignty: the case of the United States......Page 26
Framing the debate......Page 50
The interplay of domestic politics, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy......Page 52
Pre-emption and exceptionalism in U.S. foreign policy: precedent and example in the international arena......Page 84
Human rights and the war on terrorism......Page 98
U.S. foreign policy and human rights in an era of insecurity: the Bush administration and human rights after September 11......Page 100
International human rights: unintended consequences of the war on terrorism......Page 121
The fight against terrorism: the Bush administration's dangerous neglect of human rights......Page 136
U.S. unilateralism in the wake of Iraq......Page 156
Bush, Iraq, and the U.N.: whose idea was this anyway?......Page 158
The war against Iraq: normative and strategic implications......Page 178
The future of U.S. European relations......Page 197
Legal unilateralism......Page 211
Tactical multilateralism: U.S. foreign policy and crisis management in the Middle East......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 252
Whither human rights, unilateralism, and U.S. foreign policy?......Page 254
Index......Page 265

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