| Description |
xiv, 324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in international relations ; 96 |
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Cambridge studies in international relations ; 96
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Christian Reus-Smit -- 2. The politics of international law / Christian Reus-Smit -- 3. When states use armed force / Dino Kritsiotis -- 4. Soft law, hard politics, and the climate change treaty / Robyn Eckersley -- 5. Emerging customary norms and anti-personnel landmines / Richard Price -- 6. International law, politics, and migrant rights / Amy Gurowitz -- 7. The international criminal court / David Wippman -- 8. The Kosovo bombing campaign / Nicholas J. Wheeler -- 9. International financial institutions / Antony Anghie -- 10. Law, politics, and international governance / Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone Sweet -- 11. Society, power, and ethics / Christian Reus-Smit |
| Summary |
"Politics and law appear deeply entwined in contemporary international relations. Yet existing perspectives struggle to understand the complex interplay between these aspects of international life. In this volume, a group of leading international relations scholars and legal theorists advance a new constructivist perspective on the politics of international law. They reconceive politics as a field of human action that stands at the intersection of issues of identity, purpose, ethics, and strategy, and define law as an historically contingent institutional expression of such politics. They explain how liberal politics has conditioned modern international law and how law 'feeds back' to constitute international relations and world politics |
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This new perspective on the politics of international law is illustrated through detailed case-studies of the use of force, climate change, landmines, migrant rights, the International Criminal Court, the Kosovo bombing campaign, international financial institutions, and global governance."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
International law |
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Political science |
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International relations |
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Case studies |
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Cases (Law) |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
| Subject |
International law.
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International law -- Political aspects.
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International relations.
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| Author |
Reus-Smit, Christian, 1961-
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Ebooks Corporation.
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| LC no. |
2003065412 |
| ISBN |
0521837669 hardback |
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0521546710 paperback |
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