Coalitions of the Willing and International Law

Coalitions of the Willing and International Law
Author: Alejandro Rodiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108493653

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An analysis of the role of the interplay between formality and informality in shaping the current state of international law.

'Coalitions of the Willing' and the Evolution of Informal International Law

'Coalitions of the Willing' and the Evolution of Informal International Law
Author: Eyal Benvenisti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

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In 2000 all federal German ministries were ordered to avoid international obligations as much as they could. The directive stipulated that negotiators should explore alternatives to formal undertakings based on international law. Bureaucrats in other administrations report similar expectations if not explicit directives. This new attitude toward international obligations reflects both the availability of novel ways for governments to interact across political borders, as well as new concerns about international legal tools, especially the formal international institutions. This preference for informal lawmaking suggests that international cooperation can be achieved without recourse to international legal tools and that the informality offers significant benefits to some governments. The aims of this paper are to explore some of the new modalities for international cooperation that avoid the formal tools of international law, and then to reflect on the motivations for their use as well as on the consequences of their proliferation.

Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law

Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law
Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107107083

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Exploring theoretical foundations for the distribution of shared responsibility, this book provides a basis for the development of international law.

The Misery of International Law

The Misery of International Law
Author: John Linarelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198753950

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Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law. This book examines how international law on trade and foreign investment and the law and norms on global finance has been shaped to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of others. It studies how a set of principles, in the form of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), that could have laid the groundwork for a more inclusive international law without even disrupting its market-orientation, were nonetheless undermined. As for international human rights law, it is under the terms of global capitalism that human rights operate. Before we can understand how human rights can create more just societies, we must first expose the ways in which they reflect capitalist society and how they assist in reproducing the underlying terms of immiseration that will continue to create the need for human rights protection. This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is "for" or "against" international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it.

International Military Missions and International Law

International Military Missions and International Law
Author: Marco Odello
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2011-10-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004174370

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By considering different international legal sources, including humanitarian law, human rights and criminal law, this book seeks to identify the rules applicable to International Military Missions engaged in different actions in the context of peace operations.

Prophylactic Use of Force in International Law

Prophylactic Use of Force in International Law
Author: Ikechi Mgbeoji
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN:

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The author examines the legitimacy o Canada's participation in acts of non-defensive aggression in light of Canada 's international obligations and international law. He contends that in the domestic terrain, constitutional conventions, practices, and applicable laws as factors that shape Canada's decisions to participate in international conflicts, must also be critically reconsidered.

The Use of Force and International Law

The Use of Force and International Law
Author: Christian Henderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2018-05-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108643418

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The Use of Force and International Law offers an authoritative overview of international law governing the resort to force. Looking through the prism of the contemporary challenges that this area of international law faces, including technology, sovereignty, actors, compliance and enforcement, this book addresses key aspects of international law in this area: the general breadth and scope of the prohibition of force, what is meant by 'force', the use of force through the UN and regional organisations, the use of force in peacekeeping operations, the right of self-defence and the customary limitations upon this right, forcible intervention in civil conflicts, the controversial doctrine of humanitarian intervention. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners, The Use of Force and International Law offers a contemporary, comprehensive and accessible treatment of the subject.

The Practice of Shared Responsibility in International Law

The Practice of Shared Responsibility in International Law
Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1229
Release: 2017-02-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107107091

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This book reviews the practice of shared responsibility in multiple issue areas of international law, to assess its application and development.

Justice and World Order

Justice and World Order
Author: George Andreopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2022-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100054527X

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This book critically assesses the impact of Richard A. Falk’s scholarship, which has spanned nearly six decades and addressed key issues at the intersections of international law and relations. Falk has offered powerful insights on the nature and reach of international law, international relations, and the structure of their respective processes in order to assess the main challenges to the creation of a just "world order," the path-breaking concept which he has helped to develop. Continuing in the critical spirit that has informed Richard’s work as a scholar and a public intellectual, this book reflects a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches in the analysis and assessment of these selected themes. This volume looks at four key themes of Falk’s work: • International Law and International Relations Theories and Concepts • War, Peace, and Human Security • Social and Political Justice, and • The Scholar as Citizen and Activist This will be a useful book for scholars and students of international law, global governance, political theory, and international relations theory, and for those studying human security, international organizations, and transnational activism.

Participants in the International Legal System

Participants in the International Legal System
Author: Jean d'Aspremont
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136724931

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The international legal system has weathered sweeping changes over the last decade as new participants have emerged. International law-making and law-enforcement processes have become increasingly multi-layered with unprecedented numbers of non-State actors, including individuals, insurgents, multinational corporations and even terrorist groups, being involved. This growth in the importance of non-State actors at the law-making and law-enforcement levels has generated a lot of new scholarly studies on the topic. However, while it remains uncontested that non-State actors are now playing an important role on the international plane, albeit in very different ways, international legal scholarship has remained riddled by controversy regarding the status of these new actors in international law. This collection features contributions by renowned scholars, each of whom focuses on a particular theory or tradition of international law, a region, an institutional regime or a particular subject-matter, and considers how that perspective impacts on our understanding of the role and status of non-State actors. The book takes a critical approach as it seeks to gauge the extent to which each conception and understanding of international law is instrumental in the perception of non-State actors. In doing so the volume provides a wide panorama of all the contemporary legal issues arising in connection with the growing role of non-state actors in international-law making and international law-enforcement processes.