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Book SynopsisArgues that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space.
Trade Review“This is an illuminating collection that challenges us to take seriously who legal arguments speak to and how. This book brims with doctrinal and historical sophistication and shows just how central Vietnam and Palestine were, and are, to the conceptual battles of the law of war.”—Naz K. Modirzadeh, Harvard Law School “Contestation over international law rages in our day, and juxtaposing its relevance in two pivotal conflicts is an inspired way to illuminate how law is transforming politics and vice versa. This collection deserves to be widely read across multiple fields.” —Samuel Moyn, Yale University "
Making Endless War provides a powerful statement on how episodes of violence, however specific they might appear, cannot be understood independent of greater forces – including (and perhaps especially) the principles and institutions that present their mission as an effort to constrain armed conflict. As such, Cuddy and Kattan’s collection can be viewed as a major innovation in building a greater genealogy of global violence."--
LSE Review of BooksTable of Contents
- Foreword: How International Law Evolves: Norms, Precedents, and Geopolitics
- Richard Falk
- 1: The Transformation of International Law and War between the Middle East and Vietnam
- Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan
- 2: From Retaliation to Anticipation: Reconciling Reprisals and Self-Defense in the Middle East and Vietnam, 1949–1965
- Brian Cuddy
- 3: Public Discourses of International Law: US Debates on Military Intervention in Vietnam, 1965–1967
- Madelaine Chiam and Brian Cuddy
- 4: Legality of Military Action by Egypt and Syria in October 1973
- John Quigley
- 5: Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law
- Amanda Alexander
- 6: The War Against the People and the People’s War: Palestine and the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
- Ihab Shalbak and Jessica Whyte
- 7: “The Third World is a Problem”: Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon
- Victor Kattan
- 8: Operationalizing International Law: From Vietnam to Gaza
- Craig Jones
- 9: From Vietnam to Palestine: Peoples’ Tribunals and the Juridification of Resistance
- Tor Krever
- 10: War and the Shaping of International Law: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
- Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
