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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... individuals, may respond in new ways when confronted with new challenges. But even new responses are shaped by old habits of thought and established patterns of conduct. American political ideals have often differed from those embraced ...
... individual states. Even as the United States was gearing up a bolder defense strategy in the months after September 11, European governments rounded up en- dorsements for a project which embodied this alternate view. A treaty es ...
... individual nations. So European public opinion was strongly of the view that the United States must submit its war plans in Iraq to the approval of the United Na- tions Security Council. In practice, awaiting approval from the Security ...
... individuals within each nation under an Inter- national Bill of Rights, enforced, in the last instance, by an international supreme court. It seemed to many people entirely logical. The world had been brought to misery by letting brutal ...
... individuals within each nation. Within a few years, of course, visions of perpetual peace gave way to a recognition of enduring conflict or at least of enduring Cold War. The Soviet Union, with its totalitarian ambitions, brushed off an ...
Índice
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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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