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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... political ideals have often differed from those embraced by people in western Europe. Differing responses to the challenge of international terrorism simply highlighted the underlying divergence. In the immediate aftermath of September ...
... the longing for some overarching political struc- ture, encompassing all or many nations, is a very old dream. For many centuries, it was even an achieved reality. UNivERSAL EMPiRES At the height of its power, the Roman 4 Chapter 1 •
... political structure, which would ensure that states in western Europe, like the classes within them, would no longer be drawn into conflict. Perhaps there was more than a slight echo of the Pax Romana in this project, too. It was ...
... political thought. Perhaps it is not even the main tradition. The deepest roots of western culture have often been traced to Athens and Jerusalem—relatively small cities, intensely aware of their distinctiveness. The literature of the ...
... political schemes of boundless ambition—imposing total unity, seeking to build towers that would conquer Heaven by human will. And they brought death to millions and misery to hundreds of millions. More than once, the United States ...
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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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