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Antonio Cassese - Terrorism, Politics and Law: The Achille Lauro Affair - 9780745606187 - V9780745606187
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Terrorism, Politics and Law: The Achille Lauro Affair

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Description for Terrorism, Politics and Law: The Achille Lauro Affair Hardback. An analysis of terrorism and its implications for international law and politics. Cassese focuses on, and reconstructs, the Achille Lauro affair and uses this as an episode to illuminate the behaviour of modern states in response to the phenomenon of terrorism. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPWL; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 361.

This book is a highly original analysis of terrorism and its implications for international law and politics. Terrorism has introduced an explosive element into international politics. It can trigger crises which strain the relations between states – a strain which can reach breaking point if states allow their national interests to prevail.

Cassese focuses on the Achille Lauro affair and uses this as an episode to illuminate the behaviour of modern states in response to terrorism. On 7 October 1985, four members of the Palestine Liberation Front hijacked an Italian transatlantic liner, the Achille Lauro, as it was sailing on ... Read more

Using a wealth of unpublished documents and material collected from the interviews with government officials and diplomats concerned in the affair, Cassese reconstructs this complex series of events and examines the actions of the states involved – the USA, Italy and Egypt among others. He shows how a range of pressures – military, diplomatic, psychological and legal – led various states to behave as they did, also explaining why some states, in particular the USA, allowed political considerations to override legal imperatives.

This book, by one of the leading authorities in international law, will be praised as a major contribution to current debates on the nature of terrorism and its implications for the practices and policies of nation-states.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745606187
SKU
V9780745606187
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Antonio Cassese
Antonio Cassese was an Italian jurist who specialized in public international law. He was the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the first President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon which he presided over until his resignation on health grounds on 1 October 2011.

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