Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
Contents:
Preface: trips taken and not taken -- Useful abbreviations and foreign terms -- Prologue -- Lessons for travelers on foreign missions from the analects of Confucius -- A traveler from a family of travelers -- First see the USA: by car, bus, and old-time train -- A long, strange road to Paris and the wider world -- French summers and my first solo travels abroad -- From old Algiers to Marrakech -- Years of really Parisian life -- Tending bar on the island of Mallorca, then to London with a beautiful Parsee, and on again to the Greek islands for one last summer of freedom -- Foreign legal missions: the glamour of strangness -- My first foreign mission as a prosecutor: testing a new treaty in Geneva -- Unknown Switzerland -- A new voyage to Ithaca (by way of Tunisia) -- A human rights mission to Tunisia -- Follow-up mission to Tunisia -- OPDAT the Justice Department gets its own foreign service -- A little history -- Why DOJ chose such an obscure prosecutor to teach law internationally -- At Interpol in Lyon and the French School for Magistrates in Paris -- Top ten differences between us and French trials -- In the republic of Moldova: legal culture in the Balkans with wine -- A trial in ChisŒinau -- The maximum security prison at Cricova -- Law and order in the breakaway Republic of Gagauzia -- The eyes of the Tsar -- A little bit of North Korea in the heart of Europe: Transnistria -- Return from Moldova: Ilian and Azret -- the Balkans meet the Caucasus -- In Moscow, in search of the new Russia -- Missions to the Sultanate of Oman, pearl of the Persian Gulf (1999, 2002) -- New insights from a legal mission in Oman -- Seeking justice in the ancient kingdom of Morocco -- Exploring the exotic Republic of Indonesia: from Java to the island paradise of Bali -- Impressions -- Recommendations for action -- On a more personal note -- Spectacular Georgia, the mountain republic in the Caucasus: last stop on the ancient silk road from China -- First mission to the Republic of Georgia, February 2003 -- Second mission to the Republic of Georgia, July 2003 -- Epilogue: a vision of death and one last adventure -- Acknowledgments -- Further readings -- Index.
Summary:
"In his fifth book, John Hailman recounts the adventures and misadventures he experienced during a lifetime of international travel. From Oman to Indonesia, from sandstorms and food poisoning to gangsters and at least one jealous husband, Hailman explores the cultures and court systems of eight faraway countries. The international story begins in Paris as a young Hailman, a student at La Sorbonne, experiences the romance and excitement one expects from the City of Lights. Years later Hailman returns to France, to Interpol Headquarters in Lyon where he received his international law certificate from the National School for Magistrates. Traveling the world as a representative for the United States Justice Department, Hailman encountered criminals and conspiracies, including one in Ossetia, Georgia, to hijack his helicopter and kidnap him. From his time as a prosecutor are tales of three very different Islamic cultures in the colorful societies and legal systems of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Hailman also travels to the chaotic world of the former Soviet Union where, at the time of his visit, a new world of old countries was trying to rediscover their independent pasts. He explores the tiny country of Moldova and the beautiful and picturesque Republic of Georgia, and visits Russia during the brief period democracy was flowering and the nation was experimenting with a new jury trial system. Viewing his adventures through the lens of laws and customs, Hailman is able to give unique insight to the countries he visits. With each new adventure in Foreign Missions of an American Prosecutor, John Hailman shares his passion for travel and his fascination with other cultures."--Provided by publlisher.
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