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Conflict can occur when a body of law regulating one aspect of international activity does not correspond with the rules of another. This book uses trade in cultural products to illustrate that, rather than being a question of accidental overlap, such conflicts stem from different regimes having fundamentally different goals.
List of contents
- Part I: Dimensions of Regime Conflict
- 1. Culture Is One Thing and Varnish Is Another
- I: Introduction
- II: Regulating Trade in Cultural Products
- III: Regime Conflict and the Fragmentation of International Law
- IV: The Plan of This Book
- 2. Regime Conflict as Goal Conflict
- I: Introduction
- II: Toward a Heterarchy of Goal-Specific Regimes
- III: Goal Conflicts Arising from Trade in Cultural Products
- IV: Conclusion
- 3. Regime Conflict as Institutional Conflict and Power Struggle
- I: Introduction
- II: The Politics of Regime Formation and Regime Interaction
- III: Regime Shifting and Regime Conflict: Trade and Culture
- IV: Conclusion
- 4. Regime Conflict as Conflict among Legal Rules
- I: Introduction
- II: A Theory of Conflict of Rules
- III: Conflict Scenarios Relating to Trade in Cultural Products
- IV: Conclusion
- Part II: Management of Regime Conflict
- 5. The (Ir)relevance of International Law for Conflict Management
- I: Introduction
- II: Pluralistic Challenges to the Relevance of International Law
- III: Legal Conflict Management within a Unitary International Legal Order
- IV: Conclusion
- 6. From Legal Unity to Communicative Compatibility
- I: Introduction
- II: International Law as a Regime-transcendent Grammar
- III: Shared Background Assumptions of International Relations
- IV: Conclusion
- 7. Conflict Management through Legal Interpretation
- I: Introduction
- II: A Theory of Harmonizing Interpretation
- III: Accommodating the Trade Regime, the Culture Regime and Human Rights
- IV: Conclusion
- 8. Conflict Management through Priority Rules
- I: Introduction
- II: A Typology of Priority Rules
- III: Conflicts among the Trade Regime, the Culture Regime, and Human Rights
- IV: Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Dirk Pulkowski is a Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, where he serves as registrar in arbitrations between states and investor-state arbitrations. Prior to joining the PCA, Mr. Pulkowski worked as a lawyer at the trade and arbitration group of an international law firm in Brussels. Mr. Pulkowski holds a doctoral degree from the University of Munich and an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School. He is qualified to practice law in Germany.
Summary
Conflict can occur when a body of law regulating one aspect of international activity does not correspond with the rules of another. This book uses trade in cultural products to illustrate that, rather than being a question of accidental overlap, such conflicts stem from different regimes having fundamentally different goals.
Additional text
Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, The Law and Politics of International Regime Conflict should be widely recognised as a vital addition to the literature on the fragmentation of international law. It succeeds in getting beyond the now rather stagnant debate on the 'nature' of the international legal system (or systems) by exploring new and productive ways of looking at international legal structure that are informed by anthropology and sociology as well as legal theory.
