THE LEASING OF GUANTANAMO BAY by Michael J. Strauss ( 9780313377822 )

Item Details

Title:

THE LEASING OF GUANTANAMO BAY

By:

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£66.00
Our price:	£66.00

ISBN 10:

0313377820

ISBN 13:

9780313377822

Availability:

This item will be printed on demand and will usually be dispatched within 10 days.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

ABC-CLIO

Pub. date:

1 May, 2009

Series:

Praeger Security International

Pages:

313

Description:

The U.S. lease of Guantanamo Bay from Cuba is a territorial Frankenstein's monster that is running amok outside the respective legal systems of its parties and outside the bounds of international law.

Synopsis:

Post-2002 events at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay have generated a spate of books on its use as a detention center in the U.S. fight against terrorism. Yet the crucial enabling factor-the lease that gave the U.S. control over the territory in Cuba-has till now escaped any but cursory consideration. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay explains just how Guantanamo Bay came to be a leased territory where the U.S. has no sovereignty and Cuba has no jurisdiction. This is the first definitive account of the details and workings of the unusual and problematic state-to-state leasing arrangement that is the essential but murky foundation for all the ongoing controversies about Guantanamo Bay's role in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, charges of U.S. human rights violations, and U.S.-Cuban relations. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay provides an overview of territorial leasing between states and shows how it challenges, compromises, and complicates established notions of sovereignty and jurisdiction. Strauss unfolds the history of the Guantanamo Bay, recounting how the U.S. has deviated widely from the original terms of the lease yet never been legally challenged by Cuba, owing to the strong state-weak state dynamics.The lease is a hodge-podge of three U.S.-Cuba agreements full of discrepancies and uncorrected errors. Cuba's failure to cash the annual rent checks of the U.S. has legal implications not only for the future of Guantanamo Bay but of the Westphalian system of states. Compiled for the first time in one place are the verbatim texts of all the key documents relevant to the Guantanamo Bay lease-including treaties and other agreements, a previously unpublished U.N. legal assessment, and once-classified government correspondence.

Illustrations:

map.

Publication:

Imprint:

Greenwood Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

CONCEPTS IN GENE THERAPY (HB)

HOSTILE BUSINESS AND THE SOVEREIGN STATE

HOSTILE BUSINESS AND THE SOVEREIGN STATE (HB)

INVESTIGATING THE NATURAL WORLD OF CHEMISTRY WITH KIDS