 Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7895-2
Hardcover
296 pages
March 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones.
* Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side
* Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones - in the service of Western cultural and economic domination
* Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States
* Dares to ask the paradoxical question - is the Rule of Law itself illegal?
* Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side
* Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones - in the service of Western cultural and economic domination
* Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States
* Dares to ask the paradoxical question - is the Rule of Law itself illegal?
