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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... international terrorism simply highlighted the underlying divergence. In the immediate aftermath of September 11 ... Human Rights, and by many Euro- pean leaders for refusing to accord prisoner of war status to captured Afghan terrorists.
... global initiatives on the environment and human rights during the 1990s and set itself firmly against an international criminal court. And the United States continued to insist on its own right to defend itself against terrorist ...
... International con- ferences spawned ambitious new treaties to address such threats through common policies. Advocacy organizations, organized to promote respect for human rights, seemed to be having real impact on tottering dictator ...
... international narcotics traffickers. From a domestic constitutional ... Rights make domestic prosecutions look too difficult, the government of the ... human rights.”3 The most publicized cases have concerned perpetrators of murder and ...
... international convention which the United States had never ratified—on the grounds that so many other countries had ratified it that it had become part of customary international law.6 Human rights authorities at the United Nations have ...
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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