About the Editors

Irwin Abrams is considered the leading authority world-wide on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and Editor for three Volumes of Nobel Peace Lectures. He is currently the Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he taught European history and International Relations for more than three decades, administered international programs in Europe and consulted with U.S. governmental agencies.

Wang Gungwu is former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University and the Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. A noted authority on Chinese history and civilization, he has written or edited more than 20 books dealing with Asia, particularly China.

An extraordinary collection of essays on the recently concluded Iraq War by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars. The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support.

In this intellectually captivating book, Professor Irwin Abrams, considered the leading authority world-wide on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Antioch University, as well as Professor Wang Gungwu, renowned historian and Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, have collected works of notable laureates and scholars from diverse backgrounds. The Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars, together, expound on the consequences and impacts of the Iraq War – an effort that has not been made before. In conclusion, there are two sermons by Gunnar Stålsett, Bishop of Oslo.

The Prominent Contributors are:

Nobel Peace Laureates
Tenzin Gyatso (The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, 1989)
David Trimble (MP, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, UK, 1998)
Jody Williams (International Ambassador of International Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA, 1997)
Sir Joseph Rotblat (Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, UK, 1995)
Jose Ramos-Horta (Foreign Minister of East Timor, 1996)
Frederik Willem de Klerk (Former President of South Africa, 1993)
Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Co-founder, Community of Peace People, Northern Ireland, UK, 1976)
Bernard Lown (Co-founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1985)
Peter Hansen (Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UN, 1945)
Irene Khan (Sec-General, Amnesty International, 1977)
Mary Ellen McNish (Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee, USA, 1947)
Brian Philips of Oxford Brookes University (Quaker Peace and Social Witness, UK, 1947)
Cora Weiss, President (Permanent International Peace Bureau, 1910)
Christian Dominice (Sec-General, Institute of International Law, 1904)

Eminent Scholars
Noam Chomsky (Prominent Political Critic, Professor of Linguistics, MIT)
Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate in Economics 2001, Columbia University)
Richard A Falk (Albert G Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University)
Sir John Daniel (UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education)
John W Dower (Pulitzer Prize winner & Elting E. Morison Professor of History, MIT)
Eric Stover (Director of Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley)
Frank N von Hippel (Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University)
Lord Colin Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (Director of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University)
William Hartung (Director of Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute)
Benjamin R Foster (Professor of Assyriology and Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection, Yale University)
Svetlana Broz (Sarajevo Cardiologist, Author and Lecturer)
Faleh A Jabar (Iraq specialist and Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, London University)
Lisa Martin (Professor of Government, Harvard University)
Helena Cobban (Middle-East Specialist and Columnist for Christian Science Monitor)
Mahmood Mamdani (Director of Institute of African Studies, Columbia University)
Rosemary Foot (Professor of International Relations, Modern History, Oxford University)
Robin Lakoff (Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
Roland Paris (Political Science and International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Contents:

• The Post-Cold War and the Unipolar World: Can the US Lead?
• American Leadership in a Globalised World: 9/11, Iraq and Beyond
• The Hidden Costs of War: How the Bush Doctrine is Undermining Democracy in Iraq and Democracy in America
• Iraq: Educational Renewal for an Arab Renaissance?
• Missing in Action: The Iraq Museum and the Human Past
• Iraq: Collective Punishment in War and Peace
• The Iraq War and the Dialogue Among Civilizations
• and many other articles

"The Iraq War of 2003 was a most important event affecting the world leadership of the United States and international relations in general in the first part of the 21st Century. This informative and absorbing book edited by Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu provides us with comments on this War and its consequences by Nobel Peace Prize winners, including individuals and organizations, and eminent scholars from many countries. It is the best source available on the subject, viewing the War from historical, political, moral, and humanitarian perspectives

While many American citizens supported the War the majority of the international commentators represented in this volume see its negative side and have made a strong case for their viewpoint. The book contains many sobering and important historical events related to the War, some previously untold, and discusses a variety of topics including the future of the United Nations in world politics, the US presidency and the exercise of its power, the American media, issues of human rights, the art treasures lost during the War, and the future role of the United States as the world's most powerful nation. The editors deserve our gratitude for putting together these valuable essays in one easily accessible volume."

“This collection will satisfy both the professional academic and the average reader curious about the impact of the war on daily life … the editors have put together an intriguing collection of important voices to offer comfort and insight for those seeking to understand what has happened in Iraq and its implications for the future.”