Law without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign StatesPrinceton University Press, 09/02/2009 - 360 páginas What authority does international law really have for the United States? When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system? This forcefully argued book by legal scholar Jeremy Rabkin provides an insightful new look at this important and much-debated question. |
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... citizens of Athens, who dared to disregard the fatalism of other cities and the fatalistic advice of their own priestly authorities. The Hebrew Bible begins with an account of Creation that emphasizes the oneness of God and the unity of ...
... citizen, a statesman, a Framer of the Constitution—or anyone who wants to understand their choices. This book is primarily about American ideas of constitutional govern- ment. It is not a study of international relations, as such. The ...
... citizens in its own territory. The new terminology would emphasize that this body of law could only deal with “mutual transactions between sovereigns.” It could not reach into nations but would simply remain between them: it would be ...
... citizens. States voluntarily dismantled barriers to commerce. By the end of the nineteenth century, flows of foreign investment and for- eign trade rose to levels not seen again (relative to gross national product [GNP]) until the 1990s ...
... citizens. Every now and then a powerful state might send warships to emphasize that this obligation was one to be hon- ored.16 But even powerful states were often willing to see disputes about treatment of each other's nationals settled ...
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The Constitutional Logic of Sovereignty | 45 |
The Enlightenment and the Law of Nations | 71 |
Diplomacy of Independence | 98 |
A World Safe for Eurogovernance | 130 |
The Human Rights Crusade | 158 |
Is Sovereignty Traded in Trade Agreements? | 193 |
American Independence and the Opinions of Mankind | 233 |
Notes | 271 |
Index | 345 |
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