Lawless World - Philippe Sands - Penguin UK
Explosive analysis of how Britain and America have broken the legal global order by promoting America's economic interests at the expense of human rights and environment.
A coruscating account of how the Bush and Blair administrations are breaking the law and trying to rewrite the rules …
After the Second World War America and Britain led the creation of a new law-based international order, outlawing war and its excesses, protecting human rights and promoting free trade. Why is the US now undermining so many of those very laws?
Leading international lawyer Philippe Sands has been involved in high-profile cases including Guantanamo and Pinochet.
In Lawless World he draws on disturbing material to show how America has reneged on agreements governing war, torture and the environment – with Britain often turning a blind eye or colluding in some of the worst violations. In recent years America has abandoned the Kyoto Protocol and the Statute of the International Criminal Court, ignored human rights standards at Abu Ghraib and disregarded the UN’s prohibition of pre-emptive force.
Are we on the verge of a new world order where the most powerful nations can put aside the rules that no longer suit them?
Lawless World explains why we need global rules, examines why recent American and British actions endanger international justice, and asks, what does the future hold?
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