Postmodern Just Wars and the New World Order

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Notes

1. Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (London, Granta, 2001) shows how “punishment from the air” or bombing the savages without occupation was seen to have a moral purpose.

2. Bankovic, Stojanovic, Stoimenovski, Joksimovic and Sukovic v Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, Application no. 52207/99, Admissibility Decision, 12 December 2001, at paragraph 71.

3. Ibid., para 80.

4. Niall Ferguson, Welcome the new imperialism, The Guardian, October 31, 2001.

5. Robert Cooper, The new liberal imperialism, The Observer, April 1, 2002.

6. One of the last acts of the Clinton presidency was to sign the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty, something resented by President Bush, who has devised various stratagems to prevent its application.