Rule of Power or Rule of Law?

By John Burroughs and Nicole Deller

Rule of Power or Rule of Law? assesses U.S. compliance with nine treaties addressing some of the most urgent global security threats, ranging from proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to global climate change.
The study documents the value of those treaties, but concludes that the United States, in an echo of the nineteenth century idea of Manifest Destiny, is undermining each of them, preferring instead to set itself above the law and relying mainly on its own military and economic might.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891843176
• ISBN13: 9781891843174
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 227 Pages
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A cogent argument against stupidity and kooky conservatism!

What planet does the previous viewer come from? Virtually every international treaty proposed by the United Nations has been obstructed; watered-down; weakened, so its unenforceable for all practical purposes; simply ignored; or remains unratified, and scoffed at, by the government of the United States! The greatest economic and military power on earth! Whether it concerns the rights of children, rights of women, World Court, international tribunals, global warming, world's oceans, militarization of outer space, landmines, underground nuclear testing, ad nauseam, our terribly misguided Federal government will do its best to put the interests of the very few before the vast majority! At what point does this become evil? It took the last day the great Senator William Proxmire was in office, and more than a generation later, in order to simply ratify the Genocide Treaty for God's sake! What our government does, and doesn't do, in our name is simply beyond belief! It's a real shame such an important book remains so obscure! It should be required reading before a person graduates from college, and goes out into the real world!