TOM FARER

Books

The United States and Latin America in the Time of State Terror

Rich Nations, Majority Rights and Desperate People: The Future of Global Migration and National Sovereignty

Articles and Book Chapters

“Domestic Political Conflict and the U.S Intervention in Libya,” forthcoming (2015) in The International Politics of NATO’s Intervention in Libya.

“Diplomacy,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, vol. II (Jonathan Price, Routledge, 1992).

“Elections, Democracy, and Human Rights,”  Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 4 (1989). 

“Humanitarian Law and Armed Conflict: Towards a Definition of International Armed Conflict,” published jointly by the Revue Belge de Droit International and the Columbia Law Review, (January 1971).

“Human Rights and Community:  Dancing or Clashing Paradigms,” Los Derechos Humanos en un Mundo Dividido (Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 1999).

“Human Rights and Human Welfare in Latin America,” Daedalus, (fall 1983).

“Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Is the Liberal Model Sufficient?”  Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2, (May 1985).

“Human Security: Defining the Elephant and Imagining Its Tasks," Asian Journal of International Law, Volume I, Number 1.

“Legal and Legitimate Use of Force Under the UN Charter: A Critical Analysis of the Report of the High-Level Panel,” Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the 21st Century,   Paul Heinbecker & Patricia Goff, eds (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press 2005.

“Looking At Nicaragua: The Problematique of Impartiality in Human Rights Inquiries,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 10 (spring 1988) p. 141.

"Restraining the Barbarians:  Can International Criminal Law Help?"  Human Rights Quarterly (February 2000).

“The Integrity of States and the Rights of Minorities,” Les Droits de L’Homme: Universalite et Revouveau 1789-1989, G. Braibant and G. Marcou, eds. (Editions L’Harmattan Paris, 1990) p. 228.

“The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Regime: No Longer a Unicorn, Not Yet an Ox,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 19 (1997) pp. 510-546.

“The UN Reports: Addressing the Gnarled Issues of Our Time,” The International Spectator, April-June 2005.

“The United Nations and Human Rights: More Than a Whimper, Less Than a Roar,” Human Rights Quarterly, (fall 1987) and United Nations, Divided World, B. Kingsbury and A. Roberts, eds. (Oxford 2nd ed., 1993).

"Toward a Humanitarian Foreign Policy: A Primer for Policy," Tom J. Farer, ed. (New York: NYU Press, 1980).

“Two Cheers for Humanitarianism,” Ethics & International Affairs, Fall 2012.

Human Rights and Foreign Policy

“Defending Human Rights: Two Impediments for the West,” Trialogue, No. 19 (fall 1978).

“Human Rights and Foreign Policy: What the Kurds Learned (A Drama in One Act),” 14 Human Rights Quarterly 62 (1992).

“On Stanley Hoffman’s Duties Beyond Borders,” American Journal of International Law, (fall 1982).

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"Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy," Chapter 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

“A Paradigm of Legitimate Intervention,” Enforcing Restraint, L. Damrosch, ed. (NY, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993) pp. 316-347.

“Beyond the Charter Frame:  Unilateralism or Condominium?”  96 American Journal of International Law 359 (2002).

“Conclusion: What Do International Lawyers Do When They Talk About Ethnic Violence and Why Does It Matter?” International Law and Ethnic Conflict, David Wippman, ed. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 1998).

“Drawing the Right Line,” a comment on Nicaragua v. United States in the American Journal of International Law, Vol. 81 (January 1987) p. 112.

“Harnessing Rogue Elephants: A Short Discussion on Intervention in Civil Strife,” 82 Harvard Law Review 511 (1969).

“Intervention in Civil Wars: A Modest Proposal,” 67 Columbia Law Review 266 (1967); reprinted in International Law and Vietnam, Falk, ed. (Princeton, 1968).           

“Law and War,” published in The Future of the International Legal Order: Conflict, Vol. III,  C. Black and R. Falk, eds. (Princeton, 1971).

“On Professor Moore’s Synthesis,” Law and Civil War in the Modern World, (John Hopkins, 1974).

“Panama: Beyond the Charter Paradigm,” 84 American Journal of International Law 503 (1990).

“The Future of International Law Enforcement Under Chapter VII: Is There Room for ‘New Scenarios’?” The Future of International Law Enforcement, J. Delbruck ed. (Berlin, Duncker R. Humblot, 1993) pp. 39-56.

"The Regulation of Foreign Intervention in Civil Armed Conflict," (The Hague Academy of International Law, 1975).

“The Role of Regional Collective Security Arrangements,” in Collective Security in a Changing World, T. Weiss ed. (Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 1993) pp. 153-188.

Humanitarian Intervention

“An Inquiry into the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention,” in Law and Force in the New International Order, L.F. Damrosch and D. Schefler, eds. (Westview, San Francisco, 1991) pp. 185-99.

“Cosmopolitan Humanitarian Intervention: A Five-Part Test,” International Relations Vol. 19 (2005) pp. 211-250.

“Humanitarian Intervention Before and After 9/11:  Legality and Legitimacy” Holzgrefe and Keohane, eds.  in Humanitarian Intervention  (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, January, 2003).

“Humanitarian Intervention: The View from Charlottesville,”  in Humanitarian Intervention and the United States, Lillich, ed. (Charlottesville, 1983).

"The Ethics of Intervention in Self-Determination Struggles", Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 25, (2003) pp. 382-406.

"Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy," Chapter 4, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

“Israel’s Unlawful Occupation,” Foreign Policy, (spring 1991) p.37-58.

“Unjust ‘War’ Against Terrorism and the Struggle to Appropriate Human Rights,” Human rights Quarterly, Spring 2009.

“How the International System Copes with Involuntary Migration: Norms, Institutions, and State Practice,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1995) pp. 72-100.

“The Clash of Cultures, the Tension Within Liberalism, and the Proper Limits of Tolerance,” Human rights Quarterly, February 2014.

The Law of War 25 Years After Nuremberg,  (New York: Carnegie Endowment, 1971).

“The Nuremberg Trials and Objection to Service in Vietnam,”  Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, (1969) p. 140.

Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere Tom J. Farer, ed. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996).

"Collectively Defending Democracy in a World of Sovereign States: The Western Hemisphere's Prospect," Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 15, (1993) p. 716-750.

“The Promotion of Democracy: International Law and Norms,” in The UN Role in Promoting Democracy:  Between Ideals and Reality, Edward Newman and Roland Rich, eds (Tokyo New York and Paris: United Nations University Press 2004). 

“The United States as Guarantor of Democracy in the Caribbean Basin: Is There a Legal Way?”  Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 10, (spring 1988) p. 157-176 and The Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1989) p. 40.

“Flesh to the Doctrinal Bones? R2P in U.S. Foreign Policy,” (with Claudia Fuentes Julio), The International Politics of Human Rights: Rallying to the R2P Cause?, (Thomas Weiss & Monica Serrano, eds.) New York: Routledge, 2014.

"Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy," Chapters 1 & 6: Oxford, Oxford University Press (2008).

“Reagan’s Latin America,” New York Review of Books, (March 19, 1981).

“Human Rights in Law’s Empire: The Jurisprudence War,” 85 American Journal of International Law 117 (1991).

“International Law and Political Behavior: Towards a Conceptual Liaison,” World Politics, (January 1973).

“International Law: The Critics Are Wrong,” Foreign Policy, No. 71 (summer 1988).

"New Players in the Old Game: The De Facto Expansion of Standing to Participate in Global Security Negotiations," American Behavioral Scientist, (spring 1995).

“Toward an Effective International Legal Order: From Coexistence to Concert?” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 17 (2004) pp. 219-238.

“Making War on International Organized Crime:  Planning Not to Win,” in Transnational Crime in the Americas (N.Y. and London;  Routledge, 1999), Tom Farer, ed.