From Penguin Books:
In the explosive Lawless World, Philippe Sands argues that recent U.S. actions are undermining the global legal order established after WW2 and promoting its economic interests at the expense of human rights and the environment.
Here Sands explains that his book is intended to challenge, inform and even outrage readers.
From an interview with Sands:
What motivated you to write on this subject?
A belief that important international rules are under threat and that the case for supporting them needs to be set out clearly and unambiguously.
A string of high profile international events - Pinochet, the International Criminal Court, trade disputes, 9/11, Iraq, Guantanamo - have put international law issues into the public spotlight. I am frequently asked to comment and explain, but only on individual issues, not the big picture. When my editor at Penguin invited me to write about the issues in the round, I saw it as a good opportunity to explain the issues more fully and in a way which could reach a broader audience than the infinitesimally small number who might read my academic work or hear arguments in a courtroom.
Here's an example of what's in the book:
Two months before the invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush told Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq" in dealing with the spread of illicit weapons, and mentioned Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on a list of countries posing particular problems, according to a note taken by one of Blair's advisers that is cited in a new book.(For more on this)
Bush's comment, in a private telephone conversation on Jan. 30, 2003, could be significant because it appeared to add Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to a list that previously had included public mentions only of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, which the president had dubbed an "axis of evil."
The comment is reported in a new, American edition of "Lawless World," by Philippe Sands, a professor at University College, London, and a practicing barrister.
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