Political Science 3201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henry Kissinger, Iran–Contra Affair, Constitution Of The United Kingdom
31 Aug 2016
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Video - how should we conceptualize the rules imbedded w/in international law and their practices. When we intervene w/in other states reassures view that power is more important than law or legitimacy. Promoting of power objectives - moral + legal incentives of public policy. Kissinger - bombing of vietnam war = war crime and is banned from certain countries (limitations w/in international community) K believes that power is more important than the law. Talks about hiroshima bombing as an atrocity that was exempt from legal persecution. Law being established w/out equal application will not be legitimate. International court (icc) goes against crimes against humanity. Henry kissinger - ignored international law and bombed vietnam regardless. Law as it stands - what are the treaties etc. No hierarchy or authority to adopt binding legislation. Subjects of international law are ones who create it. Practices of states that we can see as laws.
