The Riddle of All Constitutions

International Law, Democracy, and the Critique of Ideology
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-926413-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

The promotion of democracy is today a familiar feature of foreign policy, and an accepted part of the activities of international organizations. Should international law join in this move to promote democratic political arrangements? If so, on what basis, and with which of the many competing conceptions of democracy? Drawing on an eclectic range of source material, the author examines current debates about the emergence of an international legal 'norm of democratic governance', and considers how proposals for such a norm might be rearticulated to meet some of the concerns to which they give rise. She also uses these debates to illustrate some more general points about approaches to the study of international law. In doing so, she seeks to defend an approach to international legal scholarship that takes its cue from the tradition of ideology critique.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marks, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Zivilprozess- und Schiedsverfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Preface to a Critique of International Legal Ideology

- 2: International Law and the `Liberal Revolution'

- 3: Limits of the Liberal Revolution I. Low Intensity Democracy

- 4: Limits of the Liberal Revolution II: Pan-National Democracy

- 5: International Law and the Project of Cosmopolitan Democracy

- 6: Afterword: Critical Knowledge

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Marks is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge