IRAQ AND THE CRIMES OF AGGRESSIVE WAR by John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser, Anna Hanson ( 9781107104532 )

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IRAQ AND THE CRIMES OF AGGRESSIVE WAR
THE LEGAL CYNICISM OF CRIMINAL MILITARISM

By:

John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser, Anna Hanson

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

9 June, 2015

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Pages:

266

Description:

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

Synopsis:

From the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib to unnecessary military attacks on civilians, this book is an account of the violations of international criminal law committed during the United States invasion of Iraq. Taking stock of the entire war, it uniquely documents the overestimation of the successes and underestimation of the failings of the Surge and Awakening policies. The authors show how an initial cynical framing of the American war led to the creation of a new Shia-dominated Iraq state, which in turn provoked powerful feelings of legal cynicism among Iraqis, especially the Sunni. The predictable result was a resilient Sunni insurgency that re-emerged in the violent aftermath of the 2011 withdrawal. Examining more than a decade of evidence, this book makes a powerful case that the American war in Iraq constituted a criminal war of aggression.

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34 b/w illus. 23 tables

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