United States hegemony and the foundations of international law
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United States hegemony and the foundations of international law
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Description
Successive hegemonic powers have shaped the foundations of international law. This book examines whether the predominance of the United States is leading to foundational change in the international legal system. A range of leading scholars in international law and international relations consider six foundational areas that could be undergoing change, including international community, sovereign equality, the law governing the use of force, and compliance. The authors demonstrate that the effects of US predominance on the foundations of international law are real, but also intensely complex. This complexity is due, in part, to a multitude of actors exercising influential roles. And it is also due to the continued vitality and remaining functionality of the international legal system itself. This system limits the influence of individual states, while stretching and bending in response to the changing geopolitics of our time.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: the complexities of foundational change Michael Byers
- Part I. International Community: 1. The international community, international law and the United States: three in one, two against one, or one and the same? Edward Kwakwa
- 2. The influence of the United States on the concept of the 'International Community' Andreas Paulus
- 3. Comments on chapters 1 and 2 Martti Koskenniemi, Steven Ratner and Volker Rittberger
- Part II. Sovereign Equality: 4. Sovereign equality: 'the Wimbledon sails on' Michel Cosnard
- 5. More equal than the rest? Hierarchy, equality and US predominance in international law Nico Krisch
- 6. Comments on chapters 4 and 5 Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Matthias Herdegen and Gregory H. Fox
- Part III. Use of Force: 7. The use of force by the United States after the end of the Cold War, and its impact on international law Marcelo G. Kohen
- 8. Bending the law, breaking it, or developing it? The United States and the humanitarian use of force in the post-Cold War era Brad R. Roth
- 9. Comments on chapters 7 and 8 Thomas Franck, Jochen Abr. Frowein and Daniel Thurer
- Part IV. Customary International Law: 10. Powerful but unpersuasive? The role of the United States in the evolution of customary international law Stephen Toope
- 11. Hegemonic custom? Achilles Skordas
- 12. Comments on chapters 10 and 11 Rainer Hofmann, Andrew Hurrell and Rudiger Wolfrum
- Part V. Law of Treaties: 13. The effects of US predominance on the elaboration of treaty regimes and on the evolution of the law of treaties Pierre Klein
- 14. US reservations to human rights treaties: all for one and none for all? Catherine Redgwell
- 15. Comments on chapters 13 and 14 Jost Delbruck, Alain Pellet and Bruno Simma
- Part VI. Compliance: 16. The impact on international law of US noncompliance Shirley V. Scott
- 17. Compliance: multilateral achievements and predominant powers Peter-Tobias Stoll
- 18. Comments on chapters 16 and 17 Vaughan Lowe, David M. Malone and Christian Tomuschat
- Conclusion Georg Nolte
- Index.
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