The future and past of U.S. foreign relations law.

From: Law and Contemporary Problems | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Flaherty, Martin S. | Copyright information

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INTRODUCTION

Well before Iraq, the United States had carved for itself a reputation of a global power that tried not to concern itself with the rest of the globe, even, or perhaps especially, when it sent its armed forces abroad. The nation's recent experience in Iraq casts this paradox in still higher relief. As the war shows, the United States has never occupied a more commanding international position, nor a greater readiness to assert itself. Epithets s...

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