Michael P. Scharf

Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis (eBook, PDF)

The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers (from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider accounts of the role that international law actually played during the major crises on their watch, the book explores whether international law is real law or just a form of politics that policymakers are free to ignore whenever they perceive it to be in their interest to do so. Written in a style that will appeal to the casual reader and serious scholar alike, the book includes a foreword by the Obama administration's State Department legal adviser, Harold Koh; background on the theoretical underpinnings of the compliance debate; an in-depth case study of the treatment of detainees in the war on terror; and a comprehensive glossary of the terms, names, places, and events that are discussed in the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511685804
• Artikelnr.: 38191569

Autorenporträt

Michael P. Scharf is the John Deaver Drinko Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. In February 2005, Scharf and the Public International Law and Policy Group, a nongovernmental organization he co-founded with Paul Williams, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Scharf served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State during the elder Bush and Clinton administrations. He is the author of more than seventy scholarly articles and twelve books, including The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding Book in International Law in 1999, and Peace with Justice (with Paul Williams), which received the International Association of Penal Law Book of the Year Award for 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: America's conscience on international law Harold Hongju Koh
1. The compliance debate
2. A brief history of L
3. The path to L
4. The Carter administration - Herbert J. Hansell
5. The Carter administration - Roberts B. Owen
6. The Reagan administration - Davis R. Robinson
7. The Reagan administration and Bush administration - Abraham D. Sofaer
8. The Bush (42nd) administration - Edwin D. Williamson
9. The Bush (42nd) administration - Michael J. Matheson
10. The Clinton administration - Conrad K. Harper
11. The Clinton administration - David R. Andrews
12. The Bush (44th) administration - William H. Taft IV
13. The Bush (44th) administration - John B. Bellinger III
14. State department legal adviser's roundtable
15. Foreign legal adviser's roundtable
16. Lawyering the treatment of detainees in the war on terrorism
17. Conclusion.