Bill Bowring

The Degradation of the International Legal Order?

The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Using critical philosophy and political methodology, this sophisticated and incisive book provides a detailed diagnosis of the present impasse of international law and relations particularly since the Iraq invasion and occupation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781904385998
• ISBN-10: 1904385990
• Artikelnr.: 22986583

Autorenporträt

Bill Bowring is Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, and a practising barrister. His research interests include international law, human rights and Soviet and Russian law. He is also a legal and political activist and has taken many cases to the European Court of Human Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Self-Determination - the Revolutionary Kernel of International Law
2. The Degradation of International Law?
3. The Legality of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq After Iraq:
International Human Rights Law in Crisis Ideology in International
Law, and the Critique of Habermas
4. A Substantive Account of Human Rights Human Rights as the Negation of
Politics?
5. 'Postmodern' Reconstructions of Human Rights
6. The Challenge of Methodological Individualism
7. The Scandal of Social and Economic Rights
8. The Problem of 'Legal Transplantation' and Human Rights
Conclusion