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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... common European structures, so encompassing as to preclude any possi- bility of future conflict. Europe's new leader voiced the ultimate promise of peace in this first modern effort toward European integration: “When National Socialism ...
... common citizenship and a common legal system. Modern Europe also imitates ancient Rome in its submission to a govern- ing scheme with republican (or parliamentary) trappings which still leaves almost all power with energetic ...
... common father and a common mother. But humanity's first family is ruptured by its first crime—a fratricide, emerging from a dispute over which form of sacrifice is most pleasing to God. Human wickedness becomes so pervasive that God is ...
... common stance or by accepting differences? Europeans protest that the United States now behaves like an imperial power. They do not imagine that the United States will soon invade Portu- gal or Iceland or that it will drop bombs on ...
... common global standards—or by acknowl- edging that differences run deep? Apart from doubts about whether programs of universal agreement can ever be really voluntary, we might wonder whether people prepared to agree on so much can ...
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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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