The Politics of International Law.

By:

Koskenniemi, Martti

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Hart, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (389 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847316554
1847316557
9781847317766
1847317766
1472565584
9781472565587
1283340208
9781283340205
9786613340207
6613340200

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of International Law.DDC classification:

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KZ1250 .K669 2011

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PR 2180

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Contents:

Koskenniemi_EB656 The Politics of International Law 9781847316554; Koskenniemi_EB656 The Politics of International Law 9781847316554.pdf; Prelims; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Koskenniemi: A Critical Introduction; Part 1. The Politics of International Law; Chapter 1. Between Apology and Utopia: The Politics of International Law; Chapter 2. The Politics of International Law -- 20 Years Later; Part 2. The Law and Politics of Collective Security; Chapter 3. The Place of Law in Collective Security.

Chapter 4. 'The Lady Doth Protest Too Much': Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics and International LawPart 3. The Politics of Human Rights; Chapter 5. The Effect of Rights on Political Culture; Chapter 6. Human Rights, Politics and Love; Part 4. Limits and Possibilities of International Law; Chapter 7. Between Impunity and Show Trials; Chapter 8. Faith, Identity, and the Killing of the Innocent: International Lawyers and Nuclear Weapons; Chapter 9. International Law and Hegemony: a Reconfiguration; Chapter 10. What is International Law For?; Part 5. The Spirit of International Law.

Chapter 11. Between Commitment and Cynicism: Outline for a Theory of International Law as PracticeChapter 12. Style as Method: Letter to the Editors of the Symposium; Chapter 13. Miserable Comforters: International Relations as New Natural Law; Chapter 14. The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics; Index of Names; Index.

Summary: Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. International law is part of the way political (and economic) power is used, critiqued, and sometimes limited. Despite its claim for neutrality and impartiality, it is implicit in what is just, as well as what is unjust in the world. To understand its operation requires shedding its ideological spell and examining it with a.

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Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. International law is part of the way political (and economic) power is used, critiqued, and sometimes limited. Despite its claim for neutrality and impartiality, it is implicit in what is just, as well as what is unjust in the world. To understand its operation requires shedding its ideological spell and examining it with a.