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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... military force to accomplish this result. For most Americans, the experience offered a clear lesson: The nation must depend, in the end, on its own exertions for its own security. At home, police warn crime victims not to take the law ...
... military responses. In April 2002, after hundreds of Israeli civilians had been killed by terrorist attacks on civilians in Israeli cities, the government of Israel sent troops into towns on the West Bank to seize terrorist leaders and ...
... military campaign. To critics, the war remained “unilateral” or in any case “illegitimate” because it was not sanctioned by the United Nations. For most Americans, it remained strange to think that American de- fense efforts required ...
... military force on the scale that it did in its war against Saddam? Would the United States really secure more interna- tional support by sending troops around the world to establish new democracies, even where existing governments posed ...
... military chiefs of staff to a permanent, international Military Staff Committee. To many advocates at the time, this treaty structure seemed barely a beginning. Serious people insisted that only a fully realized “world gov- ernment ...
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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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