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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... medieval revival of the Roman Empire, a “Third Reich,” which would leave architectural monuments as grand and enduring as those left by ancient Rome. Almost everyone now shudders at the horrors inflicted by these mid- twentieth-century ...
... Medieval Europe, torn by endless feudal conflict and religious squabbles, longed for a revival of the Pax Romana—which it connected with the inner peace to be secured by a universally acknowledged faith. There was more than a little ...
... medieval commentators saw a connection, which is not explicit in the biblical text, between the over-reaching ambition of the tower builders and the ambi- tions of Nimrod, mentioned earlier in Genesis as a “mighty one” and a “mighty ...
... medieval chivalry, as some scholars contend. But medieval warfare was not, of course, notable for humanitarian regard for civilians—rather the contrary. Modern efforts to codify such restraints made sense when governments accepted that ...
... Medieval theologians, who did not recognize private life as a distinct sphere, read- ily endorsed pillage, enslavement, and even rape as just punishment for those who supported the wrong side in an unjust war.18 The modern law of war ...
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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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