LAW AT THE VANISHING POINT A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAWPDF电子书下载

1 Skepticism Towards International Law 1

Definitional-Semantics(Austinian Positivism) 2

Realism:Descriptive and Prescriptive 8

The Illusion of International Law:Critical Legal Studies and the "New Stream" 19

Koskenniemi's Critique 23

Conclusion 26

2 Conceptualizing International Law 29

The Ontology of Social Objects:Beginning to Answer the New Stream 31

Definitions and Sources 38

The Non-Reductionist Definition of International Law 41

Descriptions,Prescriptions,and Predictions 44

3 Voluntarism and Natural Law 49

Descriptions and Functions in International Law 49

The Sovereignty Thesis 56

Nardin on International Law as a Practice 59

Natural Law and the Metaphysics of Definition 64

Towards Jurisprudence 70

4 International Legal Personality 71

Terminology 72

International Legal Personality 74

The State 75

Intergovernmental Organizations 80

Individuals 87

The Future of International Legal Personality 91

Conclusion 92

5 Humanitarian Intervention 95

The Question of Motive 98

The UN Charter 102

Sovereignty and Self-Defense:Article 51 104

Peace and Security:The Security Council's Chapter Ⅶ Powers 109

Human Rights and Intervention:Article 1(3) 114

Conclusion 118

6 Empiricism and the Reality of International Law 123

Explanations 128

Explanations and the Efficacy of Legal Norms 132

Failure of Law 135

Is There the "Rule of Law" in International Relations? 141

Conclusion 142

7 Pinochet and Nicaragua 145

The Pinochet Affair 148

Nicaragua 161

Conclusion 170

8 The Prescriptive Realists 173

The Prudential Diplomat 175

Relativism 186

Republicanism 196

Conclusion 202

Conclusion 205

Bibliography 207

Index 223