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Fundamental Perspectives on International Law

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For the price of this book there should be no mistakes. There was constant grammatical errors, and there were multiple errors where the author made a statement and then contradicted it later, sometimes this would happen multiple times concerning the same statement. The book is a very simple look at International law more for the highschool level. The author left out many important subjects and treaties like Kyoto. For the money this poorly written book was a complete dissappointment.

This book is not helpful in learning anything about international law. I used it for a class on the subject at the University of Wisconsin and it was really lousy. The class based everything on the book which meant hours of reading, re-reading, and re-re-reading this thing because it is so incoherent. It is also completely biased. Everything Israel does is praised. Everything goes back to WWII. Everything is Islam's fault. It kind of seemed like there was an agenda. Maybe it's not the book. Maybe it's the topic in general, but this was a huge HUGE waste of money. Don't buy this book. Don't take a class that requires this book. Just watch BBC news or read it online. It's free and it makes sense.

The author has achieved a feat of Herculean proportions by his extremely lucid and perspicacious analysis of the very difficult and inaccessible subject of International law. International law is next only to Qunatum Field Theory in its profundity and deep conceptual underpinnings. The very fact that an ignoramus like me can understand and appreciate this work of genius goes to show that everyone even remotely interested in the field should read this book.