Private Power and Global Authority - Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy

Informationen zum Autor A. Claire Cutler is Associate Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She is joint editor of Private Authority and International Affairs (1999) and Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes (1992). Klappentext Claire Cutler's critical analysis of the role that international economic law plays in the creation and maintenance of global power relations examines the historical and contemporary evolution of merchant law. She concludes that private interests have governed global economic relations through practices that are little understood. Interdisciplinary in scope! this study draws upon international relations and law! international political economy and political and legal theories. It will be an important first step toward developing a critical understanding of the political foundations of transnational merchant law. Zusammenfassung This book offers a critical analysis of the role that international economic law plays in the creation and maintenance of global power relations. By examining the evolution of merchant law it argues that private interests have governed global economic relations through a little understood evolving legal order. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizing the role of law in the global political economy; 3. Theorizing the role of law in the global political economy; 4. Medieval Lex Mercatoria; 5. State-building: constituting the public sphere and disembedding the private sphere; 6. The modern law merchant and the Mercatocracy; Conclusion: transnational merchant law and global authority: a crisis of legitimacy; Bibliography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A. Claire Cutler, A. Claire (University of Victoria Cutler, Claire Cutler, Cutler A. Claire
• Con la collaborazione di: Steve Smith (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.08.2003
• EAN: 9780521533973
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53397-3
• Pagine: 328
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political Economy, Political science and theory, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade