CONTENTS
Foreword by R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Former
Director of Central Intelligence
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: A Conceptual Overview of Lawfare's Meaning, Variety,
and Power
Chapter Two: Lawfare Waged by U.S. Private Sector and
Non-Governmental Organization Attorneys
Chapter Three: The U.S. Government's Financial Lawfare Against
Iran
Chapter Four: The Chinese Government Adopts and Implements a
Lawfare Strategy
Chapter Five: The Palestinian Authority Wages Lawfare Against
Israel
Chapter Six: Palestinian NGOs and their Allies Wage Lawfare Against
Israel
Chapter Seven: Hamas Wages Battlefield Lawfare Against Israel
Chapter Eight: Israel Wages Lawfare
Conclusion
Index
Orde F. Kittrie is a tenured Professor of Law at Arizona State
University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and director of
its Washington, DC Semester Program. He is also a Senior Fellow at
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan
Washington, DC think tank. A renowned expert on lawfare,
nonproliferation, the Middle East, and international security law,
he served in the U.S. Department of State for over a decade in
several key
legal and policy positions, including as lead attorney for nuclear
affairs, lead attorney for strategic trade controls, director of
the Office of International Anti-Crime Programs, and special
assistant to the Under
Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs. He has frequently
testified before Congress, and twice served on National Academy of
Sciences committees. He is the recipient of a university-wide
annual award honoring outstanding teaching, and previously served
as President of the Hispanic National Bar Association Southwest
Region.
"Lawfare...provides a fascinating analysis of how the vacuum caused
by the lack of a sheriff is playing out today in the international
legal arena...[T]he book provides numerous, painstakingly
documented examples of how, in recent decades, both other
governments and non-state actors have increasingly altered and
deployed law both to augment their own power and constrain that of
the U.S. and its allies...[W]hile Lawfare does an outstanding job
of diagnosing the
role of law in the international arena, its greatest strength lies
in its proposed antidotes - its balanced and practical
recommendations for how the U.S. and its allies should respond.
U.S. and allied
policymakers and lawyers should read this important book and heed
its call to action." -R. James Woolsey, Jr., Chairman of the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Former Director of Central
Intelligence (From the Foreword)
"Orde Kittrie has written a fascinating and thought-provoking
analysis of lawfare - the use of law as a substitute for armed
force to accomplish international security objectives. Among the
book's many strengths are its meticulously researched yet highly
readable case studies exploring the cutting-edge sophistication and
intensity of lawfare in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...This
book will be valuable to both national security practitioners, who
will
benefit from its rigorous analysis of this increasingly powerful
weapon, and attorneys, who will be fascinated and inspired to see
law used to such creative and powerful effect in the international
arena."
-Joseph I. Lieberman, Former U.S. Senator, Vice Presidential
Nominee, Attorney General of Connecticut
"Orde Kittrie has written a practical, thoughtful, and balanced
description of lawfare. This fascinating book will be inspiring to
attorneys, valuable to national security practitioners, and read
with great interest across the political spectrum." -Evan Bayh,
Partner and Former U.S. Senator and Governor of Indiana,
"With this seminal volume, Orde Kittrie opens a novel and exciting
branch of scholarship and international practice. Alongside
conventional tools -- diplomacy, economic sanctions, covert action,
and kinetic warfare -- lawfare can now take its proper place both
for offense and defense in the realm of international combat. The
United States excels at deploying conventional tools, but it is far
behind the curve in applying lawfare. Kittrie not only spells out
the
possibilities but also sounds a much needed wake-up call." -Gary
Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute
for International Economics, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary
of
the Treasury
"In the first comprehensive study of 'lawfare,' Orde Kittrie very
ably analyzes how terrorists and insurgents around the world now
use legal procedures and allegations of legal violations to hobble
nations committed to the rule of law. While lawfare is generally an
asymmetric threat--a tactic of conflict that is more effectively
employed against developed nations than by them--Kittrie also
describes emerging ways in which private parties have employed
civil
litigation to undermine terrorist organizations and their sponsors.
This thorough volume is mandatory reading for scholars and policy
makers in the field of counter terrorism." -Gregory E. Maggs,
Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School, and
Colonel, Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Reserve
"Law has become an important weapon in the strategic arsenal. In
this remarkable book, Orde Kittrie gives us the first comprehensive
examination of the techniques, promises, and perils of 'lawfare.' I
believe Kittrie's book will long remain the best such examination
of lawfare, for it unites a scholarly meticulousness with a
pragmatic flair for policy proposals. This fine book is lucid and
systematic, rich with valuable and pragmatic proposals. It will
become
a vade mecum, a manual kept close at hand, for a new generation of
officials who must cope with the rise of market states-those
decentralized . . . networked post-industrial states that are at
present
emerging-and with the vulnerabilities that come with this
development." -Philip C. Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of
Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for National Security,
Columbia Law School
"Provides a comprehensive introduction to a weapon whose very
existence will be a surprise to many...Kittrie makes the book's
focus tangible in fascinating examples...Kittrie's cogent analyses
address a topic that will garner more attention in coming years."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Lawfare is a must read and belongs in the library of strategic
thinkers, in and out of the government!"-The Strategy Bridge
"Lawfare deserves a prominent place on bookshelves at the State
Department and the Pentagon, as well as ministries of defense and
foreign affairs across the globe. I suspect that it is already
being read with great interest in places like Tehran and Beijing,
which is all the more reason that American lawmakers and
policymakers should absorb and apply its lessons as swiftly as
possible." -David Adesnik, The Weekly Standard
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