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Law and War: An American Story. By Peter H. Maguire. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 421. Index. $30.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Tom Farer*
Affiliation:
Of the Board of Editors

Abstract

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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

1 Calvin, Dearmond Davis, The United States and The Second Hague Peace Conference 1516 (1975)Google Scholar (quoted in Law and War at p. 48).

2 Excerpt from Secretary of State Elihu Root’s instructions to the U.S. delegation to the Hague Conference of 1907 (quoted in Law and War at p. 68).

3 It would be incorrect to infer that the United States was alone in undertaking such imperialist endeavors using similar means. In the same period of world history, Germany responded to a revolt by the Herero people in what was then German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) by self-consciously setting out to exterminate them.

4 Arguably, these trials raised the most difficult legal and ethical issues. But what possibly places them at the center of the author’s focus is his sense of personal connection.