Bobbitt, Philip:Terror and Consent; The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
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Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.. xiv, 281 p. Map. Bi… Plus…
Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.. xiv, 281 p. Map. Bibliography. Index. Hyman examines the complex and often troubled relations--economic, social, cultural, political, ideological, and military--between the United States and Liberia from the dawn of the 19th century to 2003 and sets forth a road map for improvement of U.S. policy. From Wikipedia: "Lester S. Hyman is a legal practitioner, with clients including Fortune 500 corporations, foreign governments and companies across the globe. Previously a founding partner and senior of counsel with the prominent Washington law firm Swidler Berlin, he now acts as a sole counselor. Hyman lives in Washington, D.C., and has a home on the Caribbean island of Tortola, where he is a member of the Board of the British Virgin Islands Community College and the British Virgin Islands National Parks Trust. He acts as United States Legal Counsel for the BVI....Hyman graduated Brown University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and graduated Columbia University School of Law in 1955 with a Bachelor of Laws degree. For the Clinton Administration, Hyman vetted candidates for Vice President, Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the CIA, and the U.S. Supreme Court, including preparation for Senatorial confirmation hearings. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission, which oversaw the construction of the FDR Memorial in Washington. President Clinton appointed Hyman to the Presidential Delegation representing the United States at the Peace Accord signing in Guatemala in 1996 that ended a 36-year civil war. Hyman's book, United States Policy Towards Liberia, was published by the Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers in 2003. It is based on his time as Legal Counsel to Liberia from 1997 to 1999 and talks about the humanitarian crisis. In the federal government, Hyman served as an attorney with the Corporation Finance Division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and later as senior consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. On the state level, he was chief assistant to the governor, then secretary of commerce and development, and later chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. As a member of the International Observer Team in 1990 headed by former President Jimmy Carter, he monitored the first democratic election in the history of Haiti. Additionally, he has been involved in peace resolution efforts in Africa, as well as legal and governmental issues in Japan, France, Korea, Germany, England, Lebanon, Russia, and the Caribbean. Hyman served on the Board of Trustees of the Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, California from 1996 to 1997. From 2004 to 2007, he was a trustee of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and a member of the Board of the UDC Foundation. [6] While a member of the board of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) in 2004, he served as project director for an 18-nation IIPI conference on the creation of the Caribbean Court of Justice. He is a member of the Board and Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the not-for-profit Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), and has taught a course in Decision-Making in Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Center for National Policy. Hyman currently serves as strategic advisor to Oxantium Ventures LLC, which manages a fund targeted at early stage technology companies in emerging markets. He writes on U.S. and international issues, and his articles appear in such publications as The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. He has appeared on CNN, CNN International, and the Fox TV national cable network as a legal/political/international expert.", Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2003, 3, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 672, [4] pages. DJ has slight discoloration and small edge chips. Inscribed on the half title page by the author. Inscription reads: " For Jerry, who had the warm affection and admiration of my father, and now has that of his son. From Philip". Includes Introduction: Plagues in the Time of Feast. Also includes chapters on The Idea of a War Against Terror; Law and Strategy in the Domestic Theater of Terror; Strategy and Law in the International Theater of Terror; Conclusion: A Plague Treatise for the Twenty-first Century; and Coda. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Annotated Index. Philip Chase Bobbitt (born July 22, 1948) is an American author, academic, and lawyer. He is known for work on military strategy and constitutional law and theory, and as the author of several books: Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History, and Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century. He is currently Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law Bobbitt has also served extensively in government, for both Democratic and Republican administrations. In the 1970s, he was Associate Counsel to President Carter. He was Legal Counsel to the Iran-Contra Committee in the U. S. Senate, the Counselor for International Law at the State Department during the first Bush administration, and served at the National Security Council, where he was director for Intelligence Programs, senior director for Critical Infrastructure, and senior director for Strategic Planning during Bill Clinton's presidency. Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West's struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of market states (like the U.S. and the E.U.), Bobbitt warns of an era where weapons of mass destruction will be commodified and the wealthiest societies even more vulnerable to destabilizing, demoralizing terror. Unflinching in his analysis, Bobbitt addresses the deepest themes of history, law and strategy. In this book, Philip Bobbitt brings together historical, legal,and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror." He provocatively declares that the United States is the chief cause of global networked terrorism because of overwhelming American strategic dominance. Bobbitt argues that the United States has ignored the role of law in devising its strategy, with fateful consequences, and has failed to reform law in light of the changed strategic context. Terror and Consent was on both the New York Times and the London Evening Standard's best-seller lists and was widely reviewed. The front page of the New York Times Sunday Book Review called it, "quite simply the most profound book to have been written on the subject of American foreign policy since the attacks of 9/11 - indeed, since the end of the cold war." Among others, Senator John McCain praised the book as "the best book I've ever read on terrorism," and Henry Kissinger called Bobbitt, "perhaps the most important political philosopher today." Tony Blair wrote of Terror and Consent, "It may be written by an academic but it is actually required reading for political leaders." David Cameron, the leader of the Tory party in the UK put it on a list of summer reading for his parliamentary colleagues in 2008. In Terror & Consent, Bobbitt argued that the only justification for warfare in the 21st century was to protect human rights. In 2017, he had a spirited exchange arguing that litigation is not the exclusive legal method for determining constitutionality in national security affairs and that law applied even when the constitutional issue in question was not justifiable. General Sir Rupert Smith wrote that Terror and Consent, "shows more convincingly than any other book I know, why the defeat of terrorism must be brought about within the context of law.", Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, 3<
