The Vietnam War and International Law, Volume 3 : : The Widening Context / / Richard A. Falk.

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• VerfasserIn: Falk, Richard A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Gerald J.,; Aldrich, George Η.,; Bender, John C.,; Black, Cyril E.,; Bork, Robert Η.,; D'Amato, Anthony A.,; Falk, Richard A.,; Forman, Benjamin,; Fox, William T. R.,; Franck, Thomas M.,; Fried, John Η. E.,; Friedmann, Wolfgang,; Goldman, Eric F.,; Gould, Harvey L.,; Hannon, John S.,; Hargrove, John Lawrence,; Henkin, Louis,; Katzenbach, Nicholas deB.,; Kissinger, Henry A.,; Lacouture, Jean,; McCormack, Wayne,; Norton Moore, John,; O'Brien, William V.,; Paust, Jordan J.,; Rehnquist, William H.,; Reveley, W. Taylor,; Richardson, Elliot L.,; Rodley, Nigel S.,; Rogers, William D.,; Rubin, Alfred P.,; Sax, Joseph L.,; Schwartz, Warren F.,; Sprague Barnes, William,; Stevenson, John R.,; Taylor, Telford,; Tigar, Michael E.,; Woods, Larry D.,; Woodward, Beverly,; Wooters, Garry J.,; Wright, Quincy,; Young, Oran R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1972
• Godina izdanja: 2015
• Jezik: English
• Serija: American Society of International Law ; 1777
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Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal debate over the last two years-the Cambodian invasion of May-June 1970, the disclosure in November 1969 of the My Lai massacre, and the question of war crimes-are the focus of Volume 3. As in the previous volumes, the Civil War Panel...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. THE CAMBODIAN INCURSION OF 1970
• A. The Expanded Zone of Combat
• From the Vietnam War to an Indochina War
• B. International Law Aspects
• United States Military Action in Cambodia: Questions of International Law
• The Cambodian Operation and International Law
• Legal Dimensions of the Decision to Intercede in Cambodia
• Comments on the Articles on the Legality of the United States Action in Cambodia
• United States Military Intervention in Cambodia in the Light of International Law
• Self-Defense and Cambodia: A Critical Appraisal
• United States Recognition Policy and Cambodia
• C. Constitutional Aspects
• The Constitutional Issues-Administration Position
• The Constitutionality of the Cambodian Incursion
• Commentary
• II. WAR CRIMES
• A. General Considerations
• The Nuremberg Principles
• The Hostage Case (excerpts)
• The High Command Case (excerpts)
• The Matter of Yamashita (excerpts)
• Targets in War: Legal Considerations
• Son My: War Crimes and Individual Responsibility
• Legal Aspects of the My Lai Incident
• Legal Aspects of the My Lai Incident-A Response to Professor Rubin
• Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who is Responsible for War Crimes?
• Β. Judicial Applications
• The Nuremberg Trials and Conscientious Objection to War: Justiciability under United States Municipal Law
• War Crimes and Vietnam: The "Nuremberg Defense" and the Military Service Resister
• Conscience and Anarchy: the Prosecution of War Resisters
• Nuremberg Law and U.S. Courts
• III. THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE ON THE VIETNAM WAR
• A. Matters of Executive Prerogative
• The President, the People, and the Power to Make War
• The Power of the Executive to Use Military Forces Abroad
• Presidential War-Making: Constitutional Prerogative or Usurpation?
• Committee on Foreign Relations, Comments on the National Commitments Resolution
• B. Matters of Legislative Prerogative
• Congress and Foreign Policy
• The Appropriations Power as a Tool of Congressional Foreign Policy Making
• C. Matters of Judicial Prerogative
• Viet-Nam in the Courts of the United States: "Political Questions"
• The Justiciability of Challenges to the Use of Military Forces Abroad
• Judicial Power, the "Political Question Doctrine," and Foreign Relations
• The Justiciability of Legal Objections to the American Military Effort in Vietnam
• IV. SPECIAL QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• Legitimacy and Legal Rights of Revolutionary Movements With Special Reference to the Peoples' evolutionary Government of South Viet Nam
• V. PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENT
• The Viet Nam Negotiations
• The International Control Commission Experience and the Role of an Improved International Supervisory Body in the Vietnamese Settlement
• The Neutralization of South Vietnam: Pros and Cons
• VI. WORLD ORDER PERSPECTIVES
• What We Should Learn from Vietnam
• Controlling Local Conflicts
• The Causes of Peace and Conditions of War
• VII. DOCUMENTARY APPENDICES
• President Nixon's Address to the Nation on "Military Action in Cambodia," April 30, 1970
• Ambassador Charles Yost's Letter of May 5, 1970 to the United Nations Security Council
• A Report on the Conclusion of the Cambodian Operation Statement of President Nixon, June 30, 1970
• The Nuremberg Principles
• Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949
• President Nixon's Address to the Nation on "A New Peace Initiative for All Indochina," October 7, 1970
• The National Commitments Resolution Senate Resolution 85, 91st Congress, 1st Session, Adopted June 25, 1969
• Amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act (Cooper-Church Amendment)
• Civil War Panel
• Contributors
• Permissions
• Index