Empire's law : the American imperial project and the 'war to remake the world' / edited by Amy Bartholomew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theorizing American empire / Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin -- Interpreting the fall of a monument / Jürgen Habermas -- The Iraq War : critical reflections from 'Old Europe' / Ulrich K. Preuss -- The conduct of the UN before and after the 2003 invasion / Hans von Sponeck -- The UN and its conduct during the invasion and occupation of Iraq / Denis Halliday -- Keeping its promise : use of force and the new man of international law / Doris E. Buss -- Looking for life signs in an international rule of law / Trevor Purvis -- American empire or empires? : alternative juridifications of the new world order / Peter Swan -- Empire's law and the contradictory politics of human rights / Amy Bartholomew -- A new Bonapartism? / Nehal Bhuta -- Empire's democracy, ours and theirs / Andrew Arato -- The three cyclops of empire building : targeting the fabric of Iraqi society / Haifa Zangana -- Drifting away from the edge of empire : Canada in the age of George W. Bush / Reg Whitaker -- A 'just war', or just another of Tony Blair's wars? / David Coates -- The uses and abuses of humanitarian intervention in the wake of empire / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Taking empire seriously : empire's law, peoples' law and the World Tribunal on Iraq / Jayan Nayar -- Whither the United Nations? / Samir Amin.