International law in the Middle East : closer to power than justice
"Examining international law through the lens of the Middle East, this study demonstrates the qualitatively different manner in which international law is applied in this region of the world. Law is intended to produce a just society, but as it is ultimately a social construct that has traveled through a political process, it cannot be divorced from its relationship to power. The study demonstrates that this understanding shapes the notion, strongly held in the Middle East, that law is little more than a tool of the powerful, used for coercion and oppression."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
Ashgate Pub., Aldershot, Hants, England, ©2004
xxii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780754624363, 0754624366
54670472
Beyond positivism : denial of Kurdish self-determination
Imperial attitude toward the Suez Canal
Disregard for international law in the evolution towards the formation of the state of Israel
Lack of enforcement of international law and the abandonment of Palestinian refugees
Selective enforcement of international law : the Security Council and its varied responses to a decade of aggression (1980-90)
Punitive in extremis : United Nations' Iraqi sanctions
Internalizing the requirements of international law : perpetual states of emergency in Egypt and Syria
A stream apart : peaceful settlements in the Middle East