The Iraq War and its consequences : thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars

Abrams, Irwin, 1914- (Added Author). Wang, Gungwu. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9812385908 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xx, 443 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, c2003.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Contributions from Nobel Peace Prize winners. Nobel Peace Prize winners : individuals. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet -- David Trimble -- Jody Williams -- José Ramos-Horta -- Bernard Lown -- Joseph Rotblat -- Frederik Willem de Klerk -- Mairead Corrigan Maguire -- Nobel Peace Prize winners : organizations. United Nations Relief and Works Agency -- Amnesty International -- American Friends Service Committee -- Quaker Peace and Social Witness -- International Peace Bureau -- Institute of International Law -- pt. 2. Contributions from eminent scholars. Wars of terror / Noam Chomsky -- Rumors of war / Joseph Stiglitz -- The hidden costs of war : how the Bush doctrine is undermining democracy in Iraq and democracy in America / William D. Hartung -- What future for the UN Charter system of war prevention? Reflections on the Iraq War / Richard Falk -- Iraq : educational renewal for an Arab renaissance? / John Daniel -- Warning from history : why Iraq is not Japan / John W. Dower -- Kirkuk : an eyewitness account / Eric Stover -- Lifting the fog / Bonnie Azab Powell -- Is the human rights era over? Reflections on the Asia-Pacific post-September 11th / Rosemary Foot -- Dealing with rights-abusing regimes without going to war / Helena Cobban -- Alternatives to war on Iraq, North Korea and Iran / Frank N. von Hippel -- Missing in action : the Iraq Museum and the human past / Benjamin R. Foster -- Reflections on the looting of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad / Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) -- End of a dictator / Faleh A. Jabar -- Iraq : collective punishment in war and peace / Mahmood Mamdani -- Multilateral organizations after the U.S.-Iraq war / Lisa L. Martin -- War talk / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Multilateralism and American power ; The burden of nation-building in postwar Iraq / Roland Paris -- Moral courage and civil society : lessons from Yugoslavia / Svetlana Broz -- The Iraq War and the dialogue among civilizations / Akira Iriye -- pt. 3. Sermons in closing. A sermon of sorrow ; A memorial service on the UN tragedy / Gunnar Stålsett.