The politics of international law / Martti Koskenniemi.

"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 i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Koskenniemi, Martti
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Between Apology and Utopia: The Politics of International Law
  • Ch. 2. The Politics of International Law - 20 Years Later
  • Ch. 3. The Place of Law in Collective Security
  • Ch. 4. 'The Lady Doth Protest Too Much': Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics and International Law
  • Ch. 5. The Effect of Rights on Political Culture
  • Ch. 6. Human Rights, Politics and Love
  • Ch. 7. Between Impunity and Show Trials
  • Ch. 8. Faith, Identity, and the Killing of the Innocent: International Lawyers and Nuclear Weapons
  • Ch. 9. International Law and Hegemony: a Reconfiguration
  • Ch. 10. What is International Law For?
  • Ch. 11. Between Commitment and Cynicism: Outline for a Theory of International Law as Practice
  • Ch. 12. Style as Method: Letter to the Editors of the Symposium
  • Ch. 13. Miserable Comforters: International Relations as New Natural Law
  • Ch. 14. The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics Index of Names
  • Index.