The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay
Author: Michael J. Strauss
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313377820

Examines the United States lease of Cuban territory at Guantanamo Bay. Includes lease objectives, costs, and impacts on U.S.-Cuba relations.

The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay
Author: Michael J. Strauss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0313377839

Post-2002 events at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay have generated a spate of books on its use as a detention center in the U.S. fight against terrorism. Yet the crucial enabling factor-the lease that gave the U.S. control over the territory in Cuba-has till now escaped any but cursory consideration. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay explains just how Guantanamo Bay came to be a leased territory where the U.S. has no sovereignty and Cuba has no jurisdiction. This is the first definitive account of the details and workings of the unusual and problematic state-to-state leasing arrangement that is the essential but murky foundation for all the ongoing controversies about Guantanamo Bay's role in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, charges of U.S. human rights violations, and U.S.-Cuban relations. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay provides an overview of territorial leasing between states and shows how it challenges, compromises, and complicates established notions of sovereignty and jurisdiction. Strauss unfolds the history of the Guantanamo Bay, recounting how the U.S. has deviated widely from the original terms of the lease yet never been legally challenged by Cuba, owing to the strong state-weak state dynamics. The lease is a hodge-podge of three U.S.-Cuba agreements full of discrepancies and uncorrected errors. Cuba's failure to cash the annual rent checks of the U.S. has legal implications not only for the future of Guantanamo Bay but of the Westphalian system of states. Compiled for the first time in one place are the verbatim texts of all the key documents relevant to the Guantanamo Bay lease-including treaties and other agreements, a previously unpublished U.N. legal assessment, and once-classified government correspondence.

The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay
Author: Michael J. Strauss
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313377820

Examines the United States lease of Cuban territory at Guantanamo Bay. Includes lease objectives, costs, and impacts on U.S.-Cuba relations.

Territorial Leasing in Diplomacy and International Law

Territorial Leasing in Diplomacy and International Law
Author: Michael J. Strauss
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004293620

Territorial Leasing in Diplomacy and International Law focuses on an unexplored but relatively common practice in which states reallocate their rights on territory without altering formal boundaries or resorting to definitive cessions. As products of diplomacy, leases address a frequent situation that, in extreme cases, can lead to war: the desire by more than one state to exercise sovereign authority in the same place. As instruments of international law, they paradoxically reinforce the territorial integrity of states while raising questions about the nature of their sovereignty. This book draws from a large number of leases to examine the practice from historic to modern times, describing their elements in detail and assessing them from both political and legal perspectives.

The Practice of Shared Responsibility in International Law

The Practice of Shared Responsibility in International Law
Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1229
Release: 2017-02-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107107091

This book reviews the practice of shared responsibility in multiple issue areas of international law, to assess its application and development.

Guantánamo

Guantánamo
Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Cuba
ISBN: 9780980429251

How is it that Guantanamo Bay, seized after the Spanish-American war over 100 years ago, is still held by the US as a naval base? Written by one of the most infamous international leaders, Guantanamo is the only book to address the historical debate about the legality of the US occupation of Cuba, preceding its use as a prison for the War on Terror. 50 years after first calling for the return of the territory, Castro reviews the history of the base, reiterating Cuba's case.

Cuba

Cuba
Author: Rex A. Hudson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780844410456

"Describes and analyzes the economic, national security, political, and social systems and institutions of Cuba."--Amazon.com viewed Jan. 4, 2021.

American Furies

American Furies
Author: Sasha Abramsky
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780807042229

In this dramatic expose of U.S. penitentiaries and the communities around them, Sasha Abramsky finds that prisons have dumped their age-old goal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. The new "ideal," unknown to most Americans, is a punitive mandate marked by a drive toward vengeance. Surveying this state of affairs--life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions, the growth of private prisons, the treatment of juveniles--Abramsky asks: Does the vengeful impulse ennoble our culture or demean it? What can become of people who are quarantined for years in a violent subculture? California's Three Strikes law typifies the politics that exploit the grief of victims' families and our fears of violent crime. Brilliantly researched and compellingly told, American Furies shows that the ethos of "lock 'em up and throw away the key" has enormous social costs. "The most urgent book of the season. Sasha Abramsky provides us with an invaluable, if harrowing, audit of the cataclysmic damage inflicted upon American values by American prisons. The lack of compassion in our national life and the gangrened hearts of our politicians pose greater threats to our childrens' futures than any overseas terrorist conspiracy." --Mike Davis, professor of history at University of California-Irvine and author of seven books including Planet of Slums and The Monster At Our Door "A smart, compassionate and tough-minded look at the rise and impact of the tough-on-crime culture that has made America the world's foremost jailer. By showing us how we got into this mess, this revelatory book also holds out hope that we might find our way out." --Nell Bernstein, former Soros Justice Media Fellow and author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated "This is by far the most intelligent and haunting indictment of the American prison system that I have ever read. Sasha Abramsky has shone an incandescent lamp on a shadowy underground universe that holds and in all too many cases brutalizes the lives of more than two million Americans. He should be commended for doing so, and his book made required reading for every legislator in the land, bar none." --Simon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman "It is with an exemplary and multifaceted grasp of the history and modern-day reality of incarceration that Abramsky is able to grasp the full context of why callous negligence and brutality so abound in the American prison system . . . American Furies is a brilliantly crafted piece of creative non-fiction replete with non-dogmatic, accessible, and lyrical prose . . . In the difficult realm of prison reporting, Abramsky is unquestionably among the best and brightest, and American Furies is clear evidence of such." --The American Prospect Praise for Conned: "Timely and important. Instead of preaching democracy to the world, the United States should start practicing it at home." --Eric Schlosser "The war on drugs, the disenfranchisement of convicted felons, a series of dodgy electoral Republican victories . . . someone had to connect the dots, and Sasha Abramsky has done so with passion, precision, and artistry." --Barbara Ehrenreich Sasha Abramsky has written for The Atlantic, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. The author of Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House and Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation, he has also reported on U.S. prisons for Human Rights Watch. He lives in Sacramento, California.