The role of law in international politics : essays in international relations and international law

Contents: --The Importance of International. -- Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the Image of Law in International Relations. --The Concept of International Law. --Emerging Patterns of Governance and International Law. --Domestic Politics and International Resources: What Role For International Law?. -- Human Rights and the Politics of Representation: Is There a Role For International Law?. --Politics And Human Rights: An Essential Symbiosis. --Governing the Global Economy through Government Networks. --The Politics of Law-Making: Are the Method and Character of Norm Creation Changing?. -- Regulating the International Economy: What Role for the State?. --How to Regulate Globalization?. --The Role of the United Nations Security Council in the International Legal System. -- The Functions of the United Nations Security Council in the International Legal System. --The Limits of the Security Council's Powers and its Functions in the International Legal System: Some Reflections. --Conclusion International Law and the Changing Constitution of International Society.

This book contains original essays by eighteen of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of international relations and international law. Together they address the highly topical question of the role that international law plays in international politics at the turn of the century. Both theoretical and political in its scope, it examines the character of international rules and norms, the way in which they develop, and how they affect political decision-making in a variety of contexts including international peace and security, international economic relations, international human rights, international development, and the environment.