Abstract

Part 1 Three overviews: an anatomy of international thought international law and international relations theory - a dual agenda navigating the new stream - recent critical writing in international law. Part 2 Ontology - is international law, law?: the science of international law is international law really law? positivism, functionalism and international law anarchy and the limits of cooperation - a realist critique of the newest liberal institutionalism the view from the New Haven School of International Law legitimacy in the international system. Part 3 What is the source of law?: ideals and things - international legal scholarship and the prison-house of language. Part 4 Who are the primary actors?: transnational legal process the future of statehood. Part 5 Is international law neutral?: the politics of international law feminist re/statements - feminism and state sovereignty in international law finding the peripheries - sovereignty and colonialism in 19th-century international law. Part 6 Is international law just?: is justice relevant to the international legal system? law, justice and the idea of world society. Part 7 Is international law democratic?: the Kantian theory of international law the end of history? - reflections on some international legal theses.

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