2. United States View

In this comprehensive examination of international law, you'll find in-depth, substantive discussion supported by expert analysis and commentary, case citations, statutes, and court rules. You'll also reap the benefits of the authors' experience and insights. Representative topics include human rights, law of the sea, airspace and outer space, and sovereign immunity.

This book is part of the Global Issues Series. Each book in this series contains materials designed to facilitate the introduction of international, transnational and comparative law issues into basic law school courses.The goal of this series is to ensure that all law school graduates have sufficient familiarity with the growing impact of non-domestic sources of law, and the growing potential for transnational legal transactions and disputes, to function in an era of increasing globalization. In addition, introduction of international, transnational and comparative law materials can enhance the students' understanding of domestic law. The philosophy behind this series may be best summarized by Justice Stephen G. Breyer's statement that "This world we live in is a world where it is out of date to teach foreign law in a course called Foreign Law." Book jacket.

Problems relating to terrorism and to the attempts to address and stop terrorism which includes not only a positivistic legal analysis of issues, but attempts to assess the costs facing us all in this modern reality of political violence. Blakesley challenges the so-called realist premise of fighting fire with fire and attempts to devolve a working definition of terrorism that may be applied to whatever group or nation that uses terror or terrorism as a tactic or strategy. The book covers occurrences of terrorism and counter-terrorism from antiquity to the current day. It considers the recent 'wars', including the war by and against al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, and analyzes similarities and differences between these 'wars' and the genocidal conflicts in places like Rwanda and Cambodia. Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism analyses international and domestic legislation, decisions, and actions (both in the US and in other countries) taken to combat the enemy that is bent on using terrorism. A major element of the work is normative. It attempts to stretch and tug at the boundaries of 'the law' to include thoughts and insights of luminaries of other disciplines, including brilliant literary giants, such as Camus, Melville, Dostoyefsky, W.H. Auden, Charles Dickens, and many others. The book, therefore, addresses the legal technicalities of 'war' in the modern era, but with an eye to addressing the deeper problems that law and policy must face. The book examines every side of every terrorism struggle, penetrating the ideology of the groups who fight each other in this modern, most terrible blood-feud. The book challenges the philosophy that each side always seems to apply to itself -- that the 'end' justifies the 'means', attempting to show that perhaps the greatest danger is to have one's means become one's end.

This book is part of the Global Issues Series. Each book in this series contains materials designed to facilitate the introduction of international, transnational and comparative law issues into basic law school courses. The goal of this series is to ensure that all law school graduates have sufficient familiarity with the growing impact of non-domestic sources of law, and the growing potential for transnational legal transactions and disputes, to function in an era of increasing globalization. In addition, introduction of international, transnational and comparative law materials can enhance the students' understanding of domestic law. The philosophy behind this series may be best summarized by Justice Stephen G. Breyer's statement that "This world we live in is a world where it is out of date to teach foreign law in a course called Foreign Law." Book jacket.