Teaches how and why states make, break, and uphold international law using accessible explanations and contemporary international issues.
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
This illuminating book explores a multitude of areas in which law and politics intersect on the international plane, providing a comprehensive analysis of the foundations on which both international law and politics rest.
In this collection of essays Professor Martti Koskenniemi, a well-known practitioner and a leading theorist and historian of international law, examines the recent debates on humanitarian intervention, collective security, protection of ...
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The Politics of International Law J. Martin Rochester. 10. 11. For the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, see also Adam Roberts, “The Use of Force,” in The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century, ed. David M. Malone, 133–152 ...
In this path-breaking volume, a group of leading international relations scholars and legal theorists advance a new constructivist perspective on the politics of international law.
Today international law is everywhere.
According to Elizabeth Schneider, civil rights activists “asserted rights not simply to advance [a] legal argument or to win a case, but to express the politics, vision, and demands of a social movement, and to assist in the political ...
Inspired by comparative politics and socio-legal studies, this Research Handbook develops a novel framework for comparative analysis of politics and international law at different stages of governance and in different governance systems.
This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds.