This interdisciplinary volume examines the highly topical issue of the role international law plays in international politics today.
International law is a system of laws governing state-to-state interactions.
This book aims to answer the question of how and why international law impacts the behaviour of actors on the international stage in the absence of central authority and faced with asymmetric power.
The new edition also contains more material on non-western perspectives, international institutions and non-state actors and a new bibliography.
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 ...
This concise book is an introduction to the role of international law in international relations. Written for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, the book first appeared in 1928 and attracted a wide readership.
Friedrich Kratochwil's book explores the key discourses and debates surrounding the role of law in the international arena.
Defining the Rule of Law, Between Thick and Thin Conceptions 3. The Rule of Law and the Legaliization of Politics 4. Building the Rule of Law With a Political Focus 5. Building the Rule of Law With an Economic Focus 6.
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.
This text examines key concepts in international law in order to illuminate them in the context of inetrnational relations. The first part of the book covers theoretical issues.