Crimes of War - Iraq (Paperback)

Crimes of War--Iraq provides a comprehensive legal, historical, and psychological exploration of the war in Iraq from the same editorial team whose 1971 Crimes of War was a landmark book about Vietnam and the revelation of American war crimes. The editors apply standards of international criminal law, as set forth at Nuremberg after World War II, and by subsequent developments regarding individual responsibility and accountability. These principles have to do with the waging of aggressive war, attacks on civilian centers of population, rights of resistance against an illegal occupation, and the abuse of prisoners. Explorations of psychology and human behavior include levels of motivation and response in connection with torture at Abu Ghraib; the phenomenon of the atrocity-producing situation in both Vietnam and Iraq (in which counter-insurgency, military policies, and angry grief could cause ordinary people to participate in atrocities); the behavior of doctors and medics in colluding in torture at Abu Ghraib; emerging testimony of American veterans of Iraq concerning the confusions of the mission, and the widespread killing of civilians; and accounts of broadening unease and psychological disturbance among men and women engaged in combat.

General

Imprint:	Nation Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	March 2006
Editors:	Richard A. Falk • Irene L. Gendzier • Robert Jay Lifton
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-1-56025-803-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > General
LSN:	1-56025-803-9
Barcode:	9781560258032

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