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
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: American Society of International Law ; 1777
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (966 p.)

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 of the American Society of International Law has endeavored to select the most significant legal writing on the subject and to provide, to the extent possible, a balanced presentation of opposing points of view. Parts I and II deal directly with the Cambodian, My Lai, and war crimes debates. Related questions are treated in the rest of the volume: constitutional debate on the war; the distribution of functions among coordinate branches of the government; the legal status of the insurgent regime in the struggle for control of South Vietnam; prospects for settlement without a clear-cut victory; and Vietnam's role in general world order. The articles reflect the views of some forty contributors: among them, Jean Lacouture, Henry Kissinger, John Norton Moore, Quincy Wright, William H. Rhenquist, and Richard A. Falk.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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