Rules, Norms, and Decisions - On Conditions of Practical Legal Reasoning in International

Zusammenfassung This book assesses the impact of norms on decision-making. It argues that norms influence choices not by being causes for actions! but by providing reasons. Consequently it approaches the problem via an investigation of the reasoning process in which norms play a decisive role. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Rules, norms, and actions: laying the conceptual foundations; 2. Anarchy and the state of nature: the issue of regimes in international relations; 3. The emergence of types and forms; 4. The force of prescriptions: Hume, Hobbes, Durkheim and Freud on compliance with norms; 5. The discourse on grievances: Pufendorf and the 'laws of nature' as constitutive principles for the discursive settlement of disputes; 6. The notion of 'right'; 7. The question of 'law'; 8. The path of legal arguments; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Friedrich V. Kratochwil
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.04.1991
• EAN: 9780521409711
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40971-1
• Seiten: 328
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht