This interdisciplinary volume examines the highly topical issue of the role international law plays in international politics today.

A fresh look at the bridges and boundaries between foreign relations law and public international law.

Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas shows students new to the field how theories (perspectives) of international affairs—realism, liberalism, constructivism (identity), and critical theory—play a decisive role in explaining every-day debates about world affairs. Why, for example, do politicians and political scientists disagree about the causes of the ongoing conflict in Syria, even though they all have the same facts? Or, why do policymakers disagree about how to deal with North Korea when they are all equally well informed? The new Sixth Edition of this best-seller includes updates on Brexit, the rise of Donald Trump and other populist leaders, and continuing developments for ISIS, Syria, and Russia.

Unlock the profound significance of International Legal Theories within Political Science with this comprehensive guide. Gain insights into the legal principles that shape global governance and justice, enhancing your expertise in this critical field. Chapters Summaries: 1. International Legal Theories - Explore foundational and contemporary theories in international law and their impact on global legal norms. 2. Jurisprudence - Examine the philosophical foundations of law and their influence on international legal frameworks. 3. Philosophy of Law - Discover theoretical perspectives guiding the interpretation and application of legal principles across borders. 4. Legal Positivism - Understand the doctrine that laws are human-made rules and its implications for international legal systems. 5. Peremptory Norm - Learn about the highest, non-violable norms in international law, like prohibitions against genocide and torture. 6. Regime Theory - Investigate how international regimes manage global issues through legal and institutional frameworks. 7. Reflectivism - Examine the critical approach to international law, focusing on the social and political contexts shaping legal norms. 8. History of International Law - Trace the evolution of international law from its origins to present-day principles. 9. International Law - Get an overview of rules and principles governing relations between states and other international actors. 10. Legal Anthropology - Analyze how legal systems reflect societal norms and values. 11. Crime - Study international legal frameworks addressing transnational crimes and efforts to combat them. 12. Civil Liberties - Understand the protection of individual rights within international law. 13. Chinese Law - Examine Chinese legal traditions and their impact on international interactions. 14. International Relations - Analyze how international law influences global diplomacy. 15. International Human Rights Law - Investigate mechanisms designed to protect human rights globally. 16. Enforcement - Learn about methods and challenges in enforcing international legal norms and agreements. 17. Humanitarian Intervention - Discuss legal and ethical considerations of using force to protect human rights. 18. Constructivism (International Relations) - Understand how ideational factors shape international law. 19. English School of International Relations Theory - Explore contributions to the understanding of international society and legal order. 20. Abram Chayes - Learn about this influential legal scholar's contributions to international law. 21. Right to Truth - Delve into the emerging principle that victims and society have the right to know the truth about human rights violations. Ideal for professionals, students, and enthusiasts, this book provides advanced knowledge, ensuring you stay ahead in the field of international law.

Contemporary debates about the changing nature of law engage theories of legal pluralism, political economy, social systems, international relations (or regime theory), global constitutionalism, and public international law. Such debates reveal a variety of emerging responses to distributional issues which arise beyond the Western welfare state and new conceptions of private transnational authority. However, private international law tends to stand aloof, claiming process-based neutrality or the apolitical nature of private law technique and refusing to recognize frontiers beyond than those of the nation-state. As a result, the discipline is paradoxically ill-equipped to deal with the most significant cross-border legal difficulties - from immigration to private financial regulation - which might have been expected to fall within its remit. Contributing little to the governance of transnational non-state power, it is largely complicit in its unhampered expansion. This is all the more a paradox given that the new thinking from other fields which seek to fill the void - theories of legal pluralism, peer networks, transnational substantive rules, privatized dispute resolution, and regime collision - have long been part of the daily fare of the conflict of laws. The crucial issue now is whether private international law can, or indeed should, survive as a discipline. This volume lays the foundations for a critical approach to private international law in the global era. While the governance of global issues such as health, climate, and finance clearly implicates the law, and particularly international law, its private law dimension is generally invisible. This book develops the idea that the liberal divide between public and private international law has enabled the unregulated expansion of transnational private power in these various fields. It explores the potential of private international law to reassert a significant governance function in respect of new forms of authority beyond the state. To do so, it must shed a number of assumptions entrenched in the culture of the nation-state, but this will permit the discipline to expand its potential to confront major issues in global governance.

Good addition to handbooks programme, no direct competitiors HIST section of ISA is growing each year Faced with an uncertain future, an increasing number of scholars have looked to the past for guidance, patterns and ideas. This tendency has been clear, despite theoretical and methodological difference, this book will fill a lacuna.

An unrepentant Nazi, Carl Schmitt remains one of the most divisive figures in twentieth century political thought. In recent years, his ideas have attracted a new and growing audience. This book seeks to cut through the controversy surrounding Schmitt to analyse his ideas on world order. In so doing, it takes on board Schmitt's critique of the condition of order in late modernity, and considers Schmitt's continued relevance. Consideration is given to the two devices Schmitt deploys, the Grossraum and the Partisan, and argues that neither concept lives up to its claim to transcend or reform Schmitt's pessimistic history of the state. The author concludes that Schmitt's continuing value lies in his provocative historical critique, rather than his conceptual innovation.

This volume of essays examines key cutting-edge areas of international refugee law, including strategies for interpretative harmony, the rights of refugees and the standard of proof in complementary protection. Each topic is examined from a theoretical and a practical perspective in order to find solutions to the many legal issues and concerns which currently confront this area of law, and to seek ways to advance the field as a whole.

This Advanced Introduction offers a fresh critical analysis of various dimensions of law and globalisation, drawing on historical, normative, theoretical, and linguistic methodologies. Its comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach spans the fields of global legal pluralism, comparative legal studies, and international law.

The last one hundred years have seen a number of events that could be perceived as disruptive challenges to the normal operation of the legal order. Some have been disruptive innovations of technologies or business practices, others social changes or constitutional transformations, further buttressed by the impact of globalisation and interdependence affecting the development of international, transnational and global law. Coincidentally, this period of one hundred years has been bookended by two pandemics, themselves disruptive realities testing the resilience as well as the adaptability of the legal regimes. A hundred years ago, the founding dean of a newly established law faculty beginning its mission amid the ashes of the First World War and the disintegration of the only remaining European empire gave an opening lecture exploring the role of law and judges in the face of revolutionary societal changes. Drawing upon that important text, this edited volume explores similar challenges for law brought about by various disruptive realities. The collection looks at the past as well as the future. Following the text of the opening lecture by Pitamic, the contributions are grouped under five headings, dealing with the law and revolution in 1918, the challenges posed for law by the seemingly more gradual political or technological transformations, the effects of globalisation and the changing world, with the final contributions reassessing the law, its methodologies and traditional paradigms including, in the epilogue, the challenges posed for law the recent disruptive reality of the Covid-19 pandemic. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of legal history, jurisprudence, constitutional law, law and politics, and law and technology.