Download or read book Assad s Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assad s Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assad's abhorrent chemical weapons attacks : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, June 17, 2015.
Download or read book Assad s Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Syria and the chemical weapons taboo written by Michelle Bentley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known as the chemical taboo. On the surface, this would seem to be an appropriate reaction: these are nasty weapons and eradicating them would ostensibly comprise a 'good' move. But this book reveals two new aspects of the taboo that challenge this prevailing view. First, actors use the taboo strategically to advance their own self-interested policy objectives. Second, that applying the taboo to Syria has actually exacerbated the crisis. As such, this book not only provides a timely analysis of Syria, but also a major and original rethink of the chemical taboo, as well as international norms more widely.
Download or read book A New Normal written by Kathleen Fallon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of chemical weapons is illegal and immoral, yet has occurred in Syria with impunity for the past three years. These frequent chemical weapons attacks, as documented in this publication, are substantiated by the reports and ndings of the Organisa- tion for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This report by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) documents these very serious international crimes, for which individual criminal responsibility attaches. This includes command responsibility for those who ordered the use of such weapons, assisted in the supply of such weapons or the materials to make them, or knew of the commission of such crimes and failed to do anything to prevent them, even though they may have been in the position to do so. The documentation of these international crimes, as well as others, will become useful one day when criminal accountability will occur.
Download or read book The Syria Problem written by Trent P. Mota and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. intelligence community has assessed "with high confidence" that Syrian government forces used sarin nerve gas in limited attacks earlier this year and conducted a mass casualty chemical weapons attack against rebel held areas near Damascus on August 21, 2013. In June 2013, the Obama Administration stated that reported chemical attacks would lead the United States to offer more material support to the opposition. Secretary of Defense Hagel and Secretary of State Kerry have stated that the United States is providing lethal assistance to vetted members of the Syrian opposition. In response to the alleged chemical attack in August, the President is seeking congressional authorization for a punitive military response intended to deter the Asad regime from using chemical weapons in the future. Members of Congress have offered divergent views concerning the reported use of chemical weapons and proposed responses. The war in Syria and the debate over possible punitive U.S. military action against the Asad regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons pose a uniquely challenging series of questions for policy makers. The overarching questions remain how to define, prioritize, and secure the core interests of the United States with regard to Syria's complex civil war. The immediate questions are whether and how best to respond to the apparent use of chemical weapons in Syria and how such a response might affect U.S. interests and standing regionally and globally. In weighing these questions, Members of Congress and Administration officials are seeking both to protect concrete U.S. national security interests and to preserve abstract international security principles that may serve those interests. This book examines the background issues and U.S. response options in the armed conflict in Syria; the humanitarian respons; and includes remarks made by President Obama in an address to the Nation about Syria on September 10, 2013.
Download or read book The Management of Savagery written by Max Blumenthal and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How America’s failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria have resulted in increased threats at home—from jihadist terrorism to the rise of Western ultra-nationalism. In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s imperial designs. Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil. These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post–Cold War age. Trump’s dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.
Download or read book The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression written by Giulia Pecorella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the position of the United States of America on aggression, beginning with the Declaration of Independence up to 2020, covering the four years of the Trump Administration. The decision of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court to activate the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression in 2018 has added further value to a book concerning the position and practice of one of the most influential states, a global military power and permanent member of the UN Security Council. Organized along chronological lines, the work examines whether, or to what extent, the US position has evolved over time. The book explores how the definition of the crime can impact upon the US, notwithstanding its failure to ratify the Rome Statute. It also shows that the US practice and opinio iuris about the law applicable to the use of force might influence, as it has done in the past, the law itself. The work will be a valuable guide for students, academics and professionals with an interest in International Criminal Law.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advancing United States Interests at United Nations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crisis in Syria written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Syrian Chemical Weapons and International Law written by Tatsuya Abe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on international efforts to address Syrian chemical weapons issues in an international law context. It provides an overview of the process of control over Syrian compliance/non-compliance with international obligations, including the keys to success in eliminating Syria’s stockpiles and reasons for difficulties in handling multiple uses of toxic chemicals as weapons in domestic armed conflicts. It also addresses collective and unilateral sanctions against Syria outside of international institutional frameworks, and their implications for subsequent cases. Supported by extensive analyses of developments within the OPCW Executive Council and the UN Security Council, this book is recommended for readers seeking insight about chemical weapons issues and dynamism of international law.
Download or read book US Hard Power in the Arab World written by Layla Saleh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of America’s presence in the Arab world, and the scope and modes of its influence, all appear to have reached a crossroads since the Arab uprisings. ‘US Hard Power in the Arab World’ traces the US’s "power of persuasion" in the Arab Middle East from the onset of the War on Terror in 2001 through to the Arab Spring. With a particular focus on Syria, the book explores the limits of an American "smart power" amid the emergence of a growing indigenous "soft power" whose ire is directed not only at Assad’s regime, but also at the violence perpetrated or enabled by the international community, headed by the US. It is argued that the blurring of the two forms of "soft" and "hard" American power has tarnished the credibility of US policies geared to win hearts and minds in the Arab world. ‘US Hard Power in the Arab World’ narrates the contests between attraction and intimidation, public diplomacy and military occupation, elites and publics, seduction and resistance. Drawing upon a multitude of primary sources, including personal interviews with Syrian activists and opposition figures, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East Politics, as well as those concerned with American Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring.
Download or read book Syria written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenges for America in the Middle East written by Richard W. Mansbach and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges for America in the Middle East offers a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the foreign policy challenges the United States faces in the Middle East. It takes a close look at the critical policy dilemmas posed by radical Islam, the Arab Spring, the Shia Crescent, and Israel–Palestine relations. Authors Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor examine the issues from a historical perspective and in the context of the current state of affairs, and analyze options for future action. Throughout the text, they emphasize the interplay of foreign and domestic issues in the United States and overseas, and show how that interplay shapes American policy towards the region.
Download or read book God Bless America written by R.D. Aaland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the wonderful type of government that our forefathers left us. It is a country to be governed by the people, for the people. Over the years our elected officials sometimes forget the wishes of our founders. In this book I guide the reader into realizing how great this country is when the politicians follow the Constitution and the Bible. These were the bases for this new kind of government that was established in 1778. This book gives many examples of how our elected officials should look to the Constitution and the Bible when making laws. Too often our politicians forget they work for “we the people.”
