From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument

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Pub. Date: 2006-03-06
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Presents a critical view of international law as an argumentative practice that aims to 'depoliticise' international relations. Drawing from a range of materials, Koskenniemi demonstrates how international law becomes vulnerable to the contrasting criticisms of being either an irrelevant moralist Utopia or a manipulable façade for State interests. He examines the conflicts inherent in international law - sources, sovereignty, 'custom' and 'world order' - and shows how legal discourse about such subjects can be described in terms of a small number of argumentative rules. This book was originally published in English in Finland in 1989 and though it quickly became a classic, it has been out of print for some years. Cambridge is proud to reissue this seminal text, together with a freshly written Epilogue in which the author both responds to critiques of the original work, and reflects on the effect and significance of his 'deconstructive' approach today.

Table of Contents

Preface to the reissue xiii
Acknowledgements xv
List of abbreviations
xvii
Introduction 1(15)
Objectivity in international law: conventional dilemmas
16(55)
The identity of international law: the requirements of normativity and concreteness
17(6)
Proving the objectivity of international law
23(35)
A preliminary point: international law as problem-solution
24(4)
Objectivity and the practice of legal problem-solution
28(1)
The basic position: objectivity and the judicial function
28(8)
The revised position: the doctrine of ``relative indeterminacy''
36(5)
Objectivity in hard cases: the forms of modern doctrine
41(17)
The structure of international legal argument: the dynamics of contradiction
58(11)
The descending and ascending patterns of justification
59(1)
Indeterminacy as contradiction
60(7)
The structure of international legal argument
67(2)
Outline of the book
69(2)
Doctrinal history: the liberal doctrine of politics and its effect on international law
71(87)
The emergence and structure of the liberal doctrine of politics
74(21)
The structure of liberalism
76(13)
Liberalism and international law
89(6)
Early scholarship
95(11)
Classical scholarship
106(48)
Early classicists: Vattel
108(14)
The professionals
122(3)
Two deviationists: Austin and Jellinek
125(5)
Professional mainstream
130(13)
The coherence of professional writing: historicism and proceduralization
143(11)
Conclusion
154(4)
The structure of modern doctrines
158(66)
Modern interpretations of doctrine: descending and ascending arguments confirmed
159(12)
Modern interpretations of practice
171(11)
The relations of doctrine and practice reconsidered: four versions of modern doctrine
182(36)
Rule-approach: Schwarzenberger
189(8)
Scepticism: Morgenthau
197(4)
Policy-approach: McDougal
201(8)
Idealism: Alvarez
209(9)
Conclusions: descriptivism
218(6)
Sovereignty
224(79)
The structure of the problem: Schmitt v. Kelsen
226(14)
The ``legal'' and the ``pure fact'' approaches
228(5)
The continuing dispute about the extent and relevance of sovereignty
233(7)
The meaning of sovereignty
240(6)
The rise and fall of the legal approach: the temptation of analysis, domestic jurisdiction and the dilemma of interpretation
246(9)
The rise and fall of the pure fact approach: Lotus principle
255(3)
Constructivism: recourse to equity
258(14)
Example: statehood and recognition
272(10)
Example: territorial disputes
282(18)
Conclusion on sovereignty
300(3)
Sources
303(85)
Sources theory
307(26)
Consent v. justice
309(16)
Tacit consent: a reconciliation?
325(8)
Treaty interpretation
333(12)
Unilateral declarations
345(10)
Acquiescence and estoppel
355(9)
The structure of sources doctrine: examples
364(21)
Example 1: the Status of South West Africa opinion
365(3)
Example 2: the Reservations opinion
368(3)
Example 3: the Admission opinion
371(8)
Example 4: the Arbitral Award Case
379(3)
Example 5: the Temple Case
382(3)
Conclusion on sources
385(3)
Custom
388(86)
Custom as general law: two perspectives
389(8)
The identity of custom: the ascending and descending approaches
397(13)
Conventional theory: the psychological and the material element and the circularity of the argument about custom
410(28)
The rejection of pure materialism
411(3)
The rejection of pure psychologism
414(1)
The psychological element as the material one: collective unconscious
415(1)
Tacit agreement
416(1)
The psychological element as will and belief
417(7)
The phenomenological claim and the consequences of psychologism
424(3)
The re-emergence of materialism
427(4)
The re-emergence of psychologism: the circle closes
431(7)
Resulting dilemmas: general/particular, stability/change
438(23)
General v. particular
438(12)
Time and customary law: the antinomy of stability and change
450(11)
Strategy of closure: custom as bilateral equity
461(13)
Bilateralization
462(5)
Recourse to equity
467(7)
Variations of world order: the structure of international legal argument
474(39)
The sense of the legal project: towards community or independence?
475(9)
The failure of legal formality: examples
484(19)
Reversibility and the structure of international legal argument
503(10)
Beyond objectivism
513(49)
The unfoundedness of objectivism
513(20)
The structure of legal argument revisited
513(3)
A fundamental dilemma: ideas/facts
516(3)
Ideas and facts in international law: the problem of method
519(3)
The interpretation of facts: the relations of law and society reconsidered
522(5)
The interpretation of ideas: the problem of language
527(6)
Nihilism, critical theory and international law
533(15)
Routines and contexts: a tentative reconstruction
548(14)
Routines: from legal technique to normative practice
549(8)
Contexts: from interpretation to imagination
557(5)
Epilogue (2005)
562(1)
A retrospective
562(1)
The descriptive project: towards a grammar of international law
563(26)
What a grammar is
566(7)
The grammar articulated: sovereignty and sources
573(16)
Sovereignty
576(7)
Sources
583(5)
Conclusions on grammar: from rules and processes to decisions
588(1)
The normative project: from grammar to critique
589(26)
The nature of indeterminacy
590(6)
Grammar and the social world: the role of antagonism and conflict
596(4)
Structural bias
600(15)
Conclusion
615(3)
Bibliography and Table of cases
618(1)
Books and monographs
618(23)
Philosophy, social and legal theory and method
618(10)
International law and international relations: general works
628(8)
International law: particular subjects
636(5)
Articles
641(29)
Table of cases
670(6)
Permanent Court of International Justice (Series A & B)
670(1)
International Court of Justice
671(2)
Other cases
673(3)
Index 676

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