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Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair Are Taking the Law into TheirOwn Hands
by: Philippe Sands

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 341
EAN: 9780143037828
ISBN: 014303782X
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 26, 2006
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 114029
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Sixty years ago, the United States and Great Britain spearheaded efforts to create a new world order based on international rules. Today these same two nations are leading the charge to abandon many of the global safeguards they once fought to establish. Crisp, impassioned, and hard-hitting, Lawless World is an exposé and an indictment of a catastrophic realignment of the laws that govern international affairs, the book that broke the stories on the 'Downing Street memo' and the 'White House meeting memo.' It is also a vivid and human account of the reckless way America has reneged on its very founding documents—and a call for us to recognize the role we should be playing to reassert the rule of law, and with it a stable, secure world.

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- Deeply disturbing
Phillippe Sands "Lawless World" is a deeply disturbing book for anyone who shares my belief that America lives by the rules.

It is indeed a "whistle-blowing" account of just how many rules of international law the Bush administration, with the complicity of Tony Blair of Great Britain, flouted in the run-up to and execution of the Iraq war. For someone like me who previously knew next to nothing about the body of international law that exists, it is incredibly eye-opening.
From the Geneva Convention and its protocols, to the Convention against Torture (1984), and the Charter of the United Nations, Sands reveals in plain and readily understandable language just what this body of law contains, how it got there, and how and why the Iraq war violated so much of it.

I have been accused of being an idealist and a liberal. (Which makes me doubly tainted). If I am an idealist, it is because ... Read More

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