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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... limit American defense efforts, when the UN had no troops to provide an alternate means of security? Criticism of American actions presumed, on the contrary, that no country would be safe unless international institutions were ...
... limits. Random choice is not much different from leaving matters to “accident and force.” By posing the question as one for “societies,” The Federalist still acknowledges that choice can re- main for some, even when others choose ...
... gives Congress the power to “declare war” and does not limit this grant of power to circumstances in which war would be seen as lawful or proper by other nations. War presumes disagreement among nations and 24 Chapter 2 •
... limit the permissible justi- fications for war. But it was hard to be very precise about limits to war when there was no means of enforcing such limits, except by successful defense against an improper or unauthorized attack. The ...
... limit the scope of war, so that war prisoners and wounded com- batants would be shielded from the fury of war, along with civilian non- combatants and civilian property. By the end of the nineteenth century, a “peace conference” at the ...
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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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