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Understanding International Law
By: Conway W. HendersoneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Understanding International Law presents a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the various aspects of international law while addressing its interrelationship with world politics. Presents well-organized, balanced coverage of all aspects of international law Features an accompanying website with direct access to court cases and study and discussion questions. Visit the site at: www.wiley.com/go/internationallaw Includes discussion of the efficacy of international law, a topic unique among international law texts Offers discussion of other topics that most texts do not address, such as complete chapters on making the world safer, human rights, the environment, and the world economy
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| Title of eBook: Understanding International Law | |
| Release Date: 11-25-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Understanding International Law
Chapter One
The Rise of International Law
Contents
The Nature of International Law 4
The Roles of International Law 6
The Early Beginnings of International Law 9
Dueling Philosophies 13
Contending Modern Approaches 16
Operating Conditions: What Helps and What Hinders? 20
The discipline of political science failed for decades to give international law its due as a framework for constraining and channeling politics at the international level. The competitive, and sometimes conflictual, interactions among states over "who gets what, when, and how" has prevented many international specialists from imagining that international law could perform a role similar to law inside countries (Ku & Diehl 1991: 3-5). These political scientists, known as realists with a focus on power-driven international politics, either ignore international law or place it on an idealistic plane with limited prospects for taming ungoverned international politics. E. H. Carr once observed that many scholars could only hope to "transfer our differences from the turbulent political atmosphere of self-interest to the purer, serener air of impartial justice" (Carr 1946: 170; Hsiung 1997). Yet, as Carr went on to point out, "In practice, law and politics may be different but are indissolubly intertwined." An interplay between politics and law at the international level is an ongoing process, with e
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