Ignoring international law : US policy on insurgency and intervention in Central America

In: The Denver journal of international law and policy, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 75-86

Abstract

The article considers US actions towards Nicaragua as being totally void of justification in international law. The Reagan administration no longer feels the need to justify their position, and the rationale has been reduced to pure Realpolitik considerations. The article goes beyond the single situation presented by Nicaragua. The whole process of foreign policy breeds contradictions. The concept of independence, would be applied to groups fighting against a regime hostile to the US, but those fighting against an ally are not accorded the same honor, no matter how repressive the regime