Ideas in Conflict

Description
Preface

Table of Contents

	Introduction
I	Contemporary International Law
2	The Origins of Sovereignty in Roman and Medieval Law
3	The Transformation of Sovereignty and International Law in Late Modernity
4	The Transformation of International Law by Human Rights
5	The UN Convention System and US Foreign Policy
6	IR Realism and the Positivity of International Law
II	The Global War on Terror
8	Containment and Disengagement
9	Assassination and International Law
10	Humanitarian Intervention and International Law
11	Lawfare, Wikileaks and the Rule of Law
Literature

Description

Ideas in Con�flict. International Law and the War on Terror describes the transformation of international law and sovereignty in the post-war world. It imparts the causes and consequences of the rise of non-state actors’ importance in international law and focuses on human rights and terrorism as two examples of this phenomenon. After World War II international law transformed itself radically: Human rights took a central role in the post-war world as the legitimator of States and as a key objective of the international system as one of the steps to prevent another global war. State sovereignty likewise transformed from an absolute, indivisible, and ultimate power of states, and only states, into relativized and transferable quanta of state power which in turn were partially parcelled upward to international organizations, downward to sub-state public law actors, and outward to private law actors. Terrorism is one of the latest challenges posed to the international system by non-state actors.

Target group

Academics in international law; human rights; terrorism studies (political science)

Author's information

Eric Engle has taught law in Paris (Créapole-ESDI), Germany (Universität Bremen), Estonia (Tartu University) and Russia (Pericles LL.M. Institute) and has worked as a research aid at Harvard Law School. He currently teaches law at Humboldt Universität, Berlin.

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