Making endless war : the Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts in the history of international law / Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword: How International Law Evolves: Norms, Precedents, and Geopolitics -- Richard Falk -- 1: The Transformation of International Law and War between the Middle East and Vietnam -- Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan -- 2: From Retaliation to Anticipation: Reconciling Reprisals and Self-Defense in the Middle East and Vietnam, 1949-1965 -- Brian Cuddy -- 3: Public Discourses of International Law: US Debates on Military Intervention in Vietnam, 1965-1967 -- Madelaine Chiam and Brian Cuddy -- 4: Legality of Military Action by Egypt and Syria in October 1973 -- John Quigley -- 5: Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law -- Amanda Alexander -- 6: The War Against the People and the People's War: Palestine and the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions -- Ihab Shalbak and Jessica Whyte -- 7: "The Third World is a Problem": Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon -- Victor Kattan -- 8: Operationalizing International Law: From Vietnam to Gaza -- Craig Jones -- 9: From Vietnam to Palestine: Peoples' Tribunals and the Juridification of Resistance -- Tor Krever -- 10: War and the Shaping of International Law: From the Cold War to the War on Terror -- Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space. The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts have been particularly significant in the shaping and attempted remaking of international law from 1945 right through to the present day. This carefully curated collection of essays by lawyers, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political geographers of war explores the significance of these two conflicts, including their impact on the politics and culture of the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America. The volume foregrounds attempts to develop legal rationales for the continued waging of war after 1945 by moving beyond explaining the end of war as a legal institution, and toward understanding the attempted institutionalization of endless war