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List of contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: PUTTING INTERNATIONAL LAW IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE, OR PUTTING YOUR LEGAL PROTOTYPES ASIDE
International Law and International Politics
The Great Paradigm Debate: Realism, Idealism, and Other Schools
Is International Law Really Law, Or a Charade?
PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL LAW AT WORK: SHOOTING POOL AND POOLING SOVEREIGNTY
Jurisdiction: The Allocation of Legal Competences Over Places and Persons on Land, at Sea, in the Air and Outer Space
Human Rights: What Happened to Sovereignty?
War and Peace: Do We Need New Rules for an Old Problem?
International Economic Relations and International Law: Regulating States and Markets
International Environmental Law: Protecting the Biosphere
PART THREE: CONCLUSION: A SUMMATION OF THE ARGUMENT
The Future of International Politics, International Law, and Global Governance
About the author
J. Martin Rochester is professor of political science at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he has taught courses on international politics and international law since 1972. His books include Waiting for the Millennium: The United Nations and the Future of World Order and Between Two Epochs: What′s Ahead for America, the World, and Global Politics in the 21st Century? He has been published in such scholarly journals as the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Peace Research. Rochester is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at UM–St. Louis, and in 2001 he was named a Distinguished Teaching Professor by the University’s Board of Curators.
