Sex and Superstition

Geoff L. Simons

Abelard-Schuman

Examines the history, social and racial schisms, and U.S. policies towards the island nation

Cuba: From Conquistador to Castro

History

Americas

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War on the Iraqi people and land, and shows how the wartime suffering and devastation has been exacerbated ever since by the imposition of an extreme sanctions regime. Evidence is presented to show that food and medicine are being denied to the Iraqi people; and that, as one of many consequences, the United States is using virtual biological warfare against a civilian population. It is argued that both the prosecution of the US-led war and the protracted economic embargo have involved the United States in cynical violations of international law. Particular attention is given to the 1977 Protocol 1 addition to the 1949 Geneva Convention, which includes the words: 'Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited'. Sanctions are considered in a historical, political and legal context with focus on the role of the United States as a hegemonic power. Attention is given also to how the economic blockade might be reasonably viewed as a genocidal crime in violation of UN resolutions and the UN Genocide Convention.

The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice

Historians and political analysts argue that a full understanding of the "Vietnam Syndrome" requires a proper appreciation of crucial elements in Vietnamese and American history. The complex effects for the United States of the American defeat and humiliation in the Vietnam War and its consequences for subsequent U.S. foreign policy are explored here, with comparisons of U.S. involvement in El Salvador and Iraq.

Vietnam Syndrome: The Impact on Us Foreign Policy

Ross K. Foad

Asia

After presenting relevant background to the Iraq Question (the changing role of Saddam, the genocidal sanctions regime, etc.), the book describes, as a detailed chronology, the 1997-8 crisis between Iraq and the United States over the issue of the UN weapons inspections. The disputes--about the composition of the inspection teams and about the inspections of "sensitive" Iraq sites, especially the presidential palaces--are set in the context of the horrendous impact of the sanctions on the Iraqi civilian population. Finally the negotiated settlement between UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Iraqi government is outlined, with attention given also to the unsympathetic US response and the continuing tensions.

Iraq-Primus Inter Pariahs: A Crisis Chronology, 1997-98

Middle East

Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam

UN Malaise: Power, Problems and Realpolitik

Foreign & International Law

Iraq

Libya: The Struggle for Survival

Africa

By examining the corruption, treatment of dissidents, penal system, suppression of women and slavery, this book looks at the current human rights situation in Saudi Arabia. Detailing from pre-Islamic times to the present, it draws attention to the influence of Mohammed, the Saudi ascendancy, the role of the West, the discovery of oil and the wars in the region. Attention is also given to the various economic, political and religious problems that today face the Saudi regime and to the Saudi response.

Saudi Arabia: The Shape of a Client Feudalism

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Macmillan

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