The politics of international law

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 17
2 The politics of international law......Page 30
Realism......Page 31
Rationalism......Page 34
Constructivism......Page 37
The nature of politics......Page 40
The ‘demand for institutions’......Page 45
The constitutional structure of modern international society......Page 48
The discourse of institutional autonomy......Page 52
The multilateral form of legislation......Page 54
The language and practice of justification......Page 56
The structure of obligation......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 59
3 When states use armed force......Page 61
Synopsis......Page 66
War......Page 68
Force......Page 73
General observations......Page 77
Self-defence......Page 79
Humanitarian intervention......Page 84
Collective security......Page 88
Conclusion......Page 94
4 Soft law, hard politics, and the Climate Change Treaty......Page 96
The climate change negotiations: some hard questions for neorealists and neoliberals......Page 98
Critical constructivism explained and defended......Page 106
The critical dimension and the question of legitimacy......Page 107
The constructivist dimension and the question of identity......Page 111
A closer look at the climate change negotiations......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 121
5 Emerging customary norms and anti-personnel landmines......Page 122
Custom, consent, and constructivism......Page 123
Constitutive norms and customary law......Page 125
The politics of opinio juris......Page 129
Opinio juris and AP landmines......Page 131
Empirical indicators of behavioural compliance pulls......Page 138
Use......Page 141
Conclusions......Page 146
6 International law, politics, and migrant rights......Page 147
Internationalisation......Page 149
International legal norms......Page 154
The results of treaty law and customary international law......Page 157
Indirect impact......Page 160
Conclusion: the importance and limitations of legal versus social norms......Page 164
7 The International Criminal Court......Page 167
Legal argumentation......Page 172
Actors, interests, and identity......Page 176
Legal and political claims......Page 180
The role of the UN Security Council......Page 182
The proprio motu prosecutor......Page 184
Jurisdiction and state consent......Page 186
Complementarity and its limits......Page 190
The nature of international law and legal institutions......Page 192
International law and national interest......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 202
8 The Kosovo bombing campaign......Page 205
Law as rules or process?......Page 207
‘Operation Allied Force’: a model of civilian protection in war?......Page 213
Resolving law’s indeterminacy over Kosovo?......Page 223
Conclusion......Page 229
9 International financial institutions......Page 233
The legal framework regulating the IFIs......Page 235
Politics and the changing role of the IFIs......Page 240
The IFIs and good governance......Page 245
Conclusions......Page 251
10 Law, politics, and international governance......Page 254
Institutions......Page 255
Actors and action......Page 259
Dispute resolution and governance......Page 261
Triadic dispute resolution and governance......Page 263
Normative structure and dispute resolution......Page 265
Building the triad......Page 266
Triadic governance......Page 268
Dispute resolution and normative change in the dyadic context......Page 272
Normative change in the dyadic context......Page 273
The case of forcible humanitarian intervention......Page 275
Rule contexts......Page 277
Disputes, discourse, precedent......Page 278
Emergence of an argumentation framework......Page 283
Conclusion......Page 285
11 Society, power, and ethics......Page 288
Society......Page 290
Power......Page 295
Ethics......Page 300
Conclusion......Page 305
Bibliography......Page 307
Index......Page 332