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Status of law in world society : meditations on the role and rule of law /
"Friedrich Kratochwil's book explores the role of law in the international arena and the key discourses surrounding it. It explains the increased importance of law for politics, from law-fare to the judicialization of politics, to human rights, and why traditional expectations of progress...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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UK,
Cambridge,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international relations ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : images of law
- Inter-disciplinarity, the epistemological ideal of incontrovertible foundations and the problem of praxis
- On the concept of law
- On constitutions and fragmented orders
- Of experts, helpers, and enthusiasts
- The power of metaphors and narratives : systems, teleology, evolution and the issue of the "global community"
- Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a "global administrative law'"
- The politics of rights
- The limits and burdens of rights
- The bounds of (non)-sense.