When international law works : realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession / Tai-Heng Cheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheng, Tai-Heng, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title addresses the current international law debates and transcends them. Responding to influential scholarly statements on international law, the author presents a new framework that decision-makers should consider when they confront an international problem implicating the often-competing policies and interests of their own communities & global order. Instead of advocating for or against international law as legitimate or binding, Cheng acknowledges its shortcomings while presenting a practical means of deciding whether compliance in a given circumstance is beneficial, moral, or necessary.

Contents:

Chapter Six: Regulators

I. Theory

II. Praxis

A. The Global Financial Crisis

B Responses and Decisions of Regulators

C. The Financial Stability Board

D. Guidance for Regulators

III. Conclusion

Chapter Seven: Legal Advisors

A. The Legal Advisor's Functions

B. General Morality

C. Specific Morality

D. Interests and Effectiveness

A. Abu Ghraib Prison

B. Waterboarding

1. Factual Assumptions

2. International Legal Prescriptions

3. The Interrogation Memoranda

4. General Morality

5. Specific Morality

6. Guidance to Advisors

7. Alternative Scenarios

Chapter Eight: Officials

A. The 1990 Gulf War

1. Specific Morality

2. General Morality and Effectiveness

3. Feedback Loops

B. NATO Bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1 General Morality

2. Specific Morality

C. The 2003 Invasion of Iraq

1. General Morality

Chapter Nine: Law Beyond Laws

I. Reframing Debates

II. Situating Among Theories

III. Results from Case Studies

IV. Conclusion.

Chapter One: Confronting Anxieties About International Law

I. The Relevance and Irrelevance of Law

II. Contemporary Debates

III. Thesis

A. The Central Case

B. Effectiveness

C. Legitimacy

IV. Terms

V. Outline of Inquiry

VI. Conclusion

Chapter Two: The Politics of Theorizing

I. A Historical Survey

II. Antiquity

III. Middle Ages

IV. Early Modernism

V. Late Modernism

VI. Post-Modernism

VII. Choices in Theorizing

VIII. Political and Normative Values in Theorizing

IX. Conclusion

Chapter Three: Legalism and Morality

I. Framing the Inquiry

II. Choices

III. Legalism

A. The UN Security Council

B. International Court of Justice

C. Conclusions About Legalism

IV. The Morality of International Law

A. Basic Values

B. Moral Obligations

C. Realist Critiques

D. Liberal Critique

E. Legal Obligations

V. Guidance to Officials

A. Morality

B. Institutional Functions

C. Effectiveness

D. The Indeterminacy Paradox

Chapter Four: Judges

A. Judicial Functions

D. Effectiveness

A. The Pedra Branca Case

1. Legalism

2. Morality

3. Effectiveness

B. The Nicaragua Case

a. Provisional Measures

b. El Salvador's Intervention

c. Decision on Jurisdiction

d. Merits

2. Effectiveness

3. Morality

4. Feedback Loops

C. The Avena Case

Chapter Five: Arbitrators

A. Arbitral Functions

II. Praxis.

A. United States-Stainless Steel (Mexico), Implementing Award

B. Loewen Group, Inc. v. United States of America

C. CMS Gas Transmission Co. v. Argentine Republic, Decision on Annulment

III. Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-326) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-970838-X

OCLC:

1056519456