Susan Marks

The Riddle of All Constitutions

International Law, Democracy, and the Critique of Ideology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book examines current debates about the emergence of an international legal norm of democratic governance and also considers some of the wider theoretical issues to which those debates give rise. It asks should international law seek to promote democratic political arrangements? If so, on what basis, and using which of the many competing conceptions of democracy?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780199264131
• ISBN-10: 0199264139
• Artikelnr.: 21192458

Autorenporträt

Susan Marks is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Preface to a Critique of International Legal Ideology
2: International Law and the `Liberal Revolution'
3: Limits of the Liberal Revolution I. Low Intensity Democracy
4: Limits of the Liberal Revolution II: Pan-National Democracy
5: International Law and the Project of Cosmopolitan Democracy
6: Afterword: Critical Knowledge