Koskenniemi: A Critical Introduction by Emmanuelle Jouannet 1
Part 1: The Politics of International Law 33
1. Between Apology to Utopia: The Politics of International Law 35
The Flight from Politics 35
The Content of the Rule of Law: Concreteness and Normativity 38
Doctrinal Structures 40
Substantive Structures 44
The Politics of International Law 58
Conclusion 61
2. The Politics of International Law - 20 Years Later 63
From Doctrines to Institutions 63
Practice: An Eye to Strategic Choices 68
Theory: Against Managerialism 71
European Journal of International Law 75
Part Ⅱ: The Law and Politics of Collective Security 77
3. The Place of Law in Collective Security 79
Rebirth of Collective Security? 80
Collective Action or Power Policy? 84
The Realist Critique of Collective Security 87
The Limits of Realism: Theory v Engagement 89
The Work of the Security Council 103
Security and Law as Institutional Cultures 109
4. ‘The Lady Doth Protest Too Much': Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics in International Law 112
Part Ⅲ: The Politics of Human Rights 131
5. The Effect of Rights on Political Culture 133
The Point of Rights 135
Translation Problems 136
Field Constitution 140
Conflicts of Rights 142
Rights-Exception Schemes 145
Indeterminacy of Rights 147
Between Myth and Bureaucracy 148
6. Human Rights, Politics and Love 153
The Pedigree of Rights 153
Human Rights as the Outcome of Politics 157
The Contextuality of Rights 159
Part Ⅳ: Limits and Possibilities of International Law 169
7. Between Impunity and Show Trials 171
Why Punish? 171
Of Truth and Context 179
A Short History of History Lessons 185
The Politics of Truth 190
‘Show Trial?' 195
8. Faith, Identity, and the Killing of the Innocent: International Lawyers and Nuclear Weapons 198
The Opinion 199
Law and Politics 201
Limits of Rules 203
The Sense of Silence 211
Abraham's Lesson 215
9. International Law and Hegemony: a Recon guration 219
The Hegemonic Technique 221
Basic Ambivalence: Between Unity and Diversity 223
The Law of Force: Imperial Themes 225
The Law of Peace: Fragmentation Themes 228
Trade: Utilitarian Themes 230
Human Rights Themes 232
Globalisation Themes 235
Conclusion: Between Hegemony and Community 238
10. What is International Law For? 241
The Paradox of Objectives 242
Converging Interests? 244
The Significance of Statehood 246
Into Pragmatism? 250
A Tradition of Anti-Formalism 254
Instrumentalism, Formalism, and the Production of an International Political Communiry 258
Beyond Instrumentalism and Formalism 260
Between Hegemony and Fragmentation: a Mini-History 263
Legal Formalism and International Justice 265
Part Ⅴ: The Spirit of International Law 269
11. Between Commitment and Cynicism: Outline for a Theory of International Law as Practice 271
Work of Commitment? 273
Commitment under Stress 276
The Judge 284
The Adviser 287
The Activist 289
The Academic 291
12. Style as Method: Letter to the Editors of the Symposium 294
13. Miserable Comforters: International Relations as New Natural Law 307
Introduction 307
Samuel Pufendorf: Natural Law as the Science of the Social 308
The Hidden Career of Natural Law 315
The New Natural Law 318
Kant and International Law Today 325
Conclusion 327
14. The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics 331
The Project of Modern International Law 331
Fragmentation 334
Deformalisation 339
Constitutionalism 345
Legal Pluralism 350
Narrative Perspectives 354
German Analogies 356
Contesting Governance 358
Index 363