LAWLESS WORLD

Reviewed 1/31/2006

Lawless World, by Philippe Sands

LAWLESS WORLD
America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War
Philippe Sands
New York: Viking Books, October 2005

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-670-03452-9
ISBN-10 0-670-03452-5 324pp. HC $25.95

List of Abbreviations

AICL Amnesty International Charity, Ltd.
ANC African National Congress
AOSIS Alliance of Small Island States
CARICOM Caribbean Community
COMPASS Committee to Preserve American Security and Sovereignty
CPS Crown Prosecution Service (United Kingdom)
DINA Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (Chile's National Intelligence Directorate)
ECHR European Convention on Human Rights
EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ICC International Criminal Court
ICJ International Court of Justice
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
ICSID International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
ICTY International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
IFC International Finance Corporation
ILC International Law Commission
IMF International Monetary Fund
IP Intellectual Property
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ITO International Trade Organization
MAI Multilateral Agreement on Investment
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMT methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO nongovernmental organization
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
SIAC Special Immigration Appeals Commission
TED Turtle Excluder Device
TRIPs Agreement on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
UNMOVIC United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Committee
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction
WTO World Trade Organization
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