Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World' -- 1 Theorizing American Empire -- 2 Interpreting the Fall of a Monument -- 3 The Iraq War: Critical Reflections from 'Old Europe' -- II Empire's Law: War, Human Rights and International Law -- 4 The Conduct of the UN before and after the 2003 Invasion -- 5 The UN and its Conduct during the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq -- 6 Keeping its Promise: Use of Force and the New Man of International Law -- 7 Looking for Life Signs in an International Rule of Law1 -- 8 American Empire or Empires? Alternative Juridifications of the New World Order -- 9 Empire's Law and the Contradictory Politics of Human Rights -- III Occupation, Democracy and Contradictions of Empire in Iraq -- 10 A New Bonapartism? -- 11 Empire's Democracy, Ours and Theirs -- 12 The Three Cyclops of Empire-Building: Targeting the Fabric of Iraqi Society -- IV Resisting Empire: Room for Manoeuvre? -- 13 Drifting Away from the Edge of Empire: Canada in the Era of George W. Bush -- 14 A 'Just War', or Just Another of Tony Blair's Wars? -- 15 The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire -- 16 Taking Empire Seriously: Empire's Law, Peoples' Law and the World Tribunal on Iraq -- 17 Whither the United Nations? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.