Contents:
Acknowledgements’;
Introduction;
Part I. The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World';
1. Theorizing American Empire - Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin;
2. Interpreting the fall of a Monument - Jurgen Habermas;
3. The Iraq War: Critical Reflections from 'Old Europe'Part - Ulrich Preuss;
Part II. Empire's Law: War, Human Rights, and International Law:
4. The Conduct of the UN Before and after the 2003 Invasion - Hans von Sponeck;
5. The UN and its Conduct during the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq - Denis Halliday;
6. Keeping its Promise: Use of Force and the New Man of International Law - Doris E. Buss;
7. Looking for Life Signs in an International Rule of Law - Trevor Purvis;
8. American Empire or Empires? Alternative Juridifications of the New World Order - Peter Swan;
9. Empire's Law and the Contradictory Politics of Human Rights - Amy Bartholomew;
Part III. Occupation, Democracy and Contradictions of Empire in Iraq:
10. A New Bonapartism? - Nehal Bhuta;
11. Empire's Democracy, Ours and Theirs - Andrew Arato;
12. Three Cyclops of Empire Building: Targeting the Fabric of Iraqi Society - Haifa Zangana; Part IV. Resisting Empire: Room for Manoeuvre?
13. Drifting Away from the Edge of Empire: Canada in the Age of George W. Bush - Reg Whitaker;
14. A 'Just War', or Just another of Tony Blair's Wars? - David Coates;
15. The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire - Fuyuki Kurasawa;
16. Taking Empire Seriously: Empire's Law, People's Law, and the World Tribunal in Iraq - Jayan Nayar;
17. Whither the United Nations? - Samir Amin;
Index.