Synopses & Reviews
International Rules brings together exemplary works from the most prominent approaches to international rules of International Law and International Relations disciplines. Included are chapters on Natural Law, Legal Positivism, Classical Realism, the New Haven School, Institutionalism, Structural Realism, the New Stream, and Feminist Voices. Each of the eight chapters begins with a brief overview, offers a representative work or works, and concludes with a selected bibliography. From Hugo Grotius to David Kennedy, from George Kennan to Robert Keohane, the featured authors provide valuable insights into their common subject: international rules. Despite divergent methods and objectives, they address fundamentally the same questions: What is the nature of such rules? What is their purpose? How do they originate? What role, if any, do they play in politics? Framing the selections assembled are two original chapter-length essays. The first chapter of this volume assesses the prospects for interdisciplinary collaboration; the final one suggests a direction for future research.
Review
"A valuable synthesis of the various theories of international law and of their major flaws and inconsistencies. Required reading in any discussion of international law, world institutions, and state sovereignty."--Lydia Gardner, Southwest Texas State University
Review
"A valuable synthesis of the various theories of international law and of their major flaws and inconsistencies. Required reading in any discussion of international law, world institutions, and state sovereignty."--Lydia Gardner, Southwest Texas State University
About the Author
Robert J. Beck, Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
Anthony Clark Arend, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Robert D. Vander Lugt, Associate Attorney, Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro
Table of Contents
1. International Law and International Relations: The Prospects for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
2. Natral Law
Prolegomena, De Jure Ac Pacis, Hugo Grotius
3. Legal Positivism
Lecture Two: The Nature of International Law, Hans Kelsen
International Law, H.L.A. Hart
4. Classical Realism
Diplomacy in the Modern World, George F. Kennan
Remarks in Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, Dean Acheson
5. The New Haven School
The Identification and Appraisal of Diverse Systems of Public Order, Myres S. McDougal and Harold Lasswell
6. Structural Realism
Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of Newest Liberal Institutionalism, Joseph M. Grieco
7. Institutional Approaches
Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables, Stephen Krasner
International Institutions: Two Approaches, Robert O. Keohane
International Society and the Study of Regimes: A Reflective Approach, Andrew Hurrell
8. The New Stream
A New Stream of International Law SCholarship, David Kennedy
9. Feminist Voices
Feminist Approaches To International Law, Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright
10 Toward an Understanding of International Legal Rules. Anthony Clark Arend