Bowring, Bill,

Degradation of the international legal order : the rehabilitation of law and the possibility of politics / Rehabilitation of law and the possibility of politics Bill Bowring. - viii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Self-Determination - the Revolutionary Kernel of International Law -- The Degradation of International Law? -- 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 -- A Substantive Account of Human Rights -- Human Rights as the Negation of Politics? -- 'Postmodern' Reconstructions of Human Rights -- The Challenge of Methodological Individualism -- The Scandal of Social and Economic Rights -- The Problem of 'Legal Transplantation' and Human Rights -- Conclusion.

1904385990 9781904385998 1904385362 9781904385363


International law.
International law--Philosophy
World politics--1989-
Human rights.

KZ3400 / .B69 2008

341.01