Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
The Role of International Law and the
State Department Legal Advisor
by Michael P. Scharf and Paul R. Williams
Published by Cambridge
University Press
Shaping Foreign Policy in
Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the
authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State
Department legal advisors (from the Carter administration to
that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider account of the
role that international law actually played during the major
crises on their watch, the book explores whether international
law is real law or just a form of politics that policymakers
are free to ignore whenever they perceive it to be in their
best interest to do so. |
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Review
"... a remarkably revealing account of international
law in action."
—Stephen M. Schwebel, former Judge and President of the
International
Court of Justice |
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