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 The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (9-28)   (190K)
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    • Table of contents
    • Biographical note
    • Principal publications
    • Preface
  • Breaking out of Alice’s looking-glass : an introduction (29-44)   (146K)
  • What is international law attached to ? (45-74)   (222K)
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    • A. Dimensions of the International Process
  • Some propositions and conditioning factors (75-100)   (195K)
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    • A. The Organized and Unorganized Character of International Processes
    • B. Symbols of Authority
    • C. Commitments to Support Arrangements
    • D. Interest and Common Interest
    • E. The Volatility of International Law
    • F. Law’s Myth Systems and Operational Codes
    • G. Power
  • The world constitutive process and its decision functions (101-118)   (150K)
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    • A. Unorganized and Non-Hierarchical Constitutive Structures
    • B. Ineffective Constitutive Structures
    • C. Effective but Limited Constitutive Structures
    • D. Effective Constitutive Structures
    • E. The Succession of Constitutive Processes in International Law
  • The international lawmaking function (119-144)   (197K)
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    • A. Prescribing as a Process of Communication
    • B. Soft Law
    • C. Democratization of International Lawmaking
  • Two modes of principled decision-making (145-164)   (165K)
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    • A. Multiple Modes of Decision-Making
    • B. The Textual-Rule-Based Mode
    • C. The Policy-Context-Based Mode
    • D. Mapping
  • The international law-applying function (165-190)   (201K)
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    • A. The Scope of International Application
    • B. The Promotion Function
    • C. Differing Scopes of Authority
    • D. Are There Constitutional Limits?
    • E. Consent as a Prerequisite for Application
    • F. Appliers as Prescribers
    • G. National Judges
    • H. International Arbitrators
  • Participation arrangements for States: the transformation of self-determination and the emergence of the individual (191-216)   (197K)
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    • A. The Process of Consociation and the Demand for Self-Determination
    • B. International Membership Criteria : From Membership by Power to Membership by Right
    • C. The Ironic Role of
    • D. Recognition
  • Sovereignty and human rights : changing the internal arrangements of States by external means (217-232)   (142K)
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    • A. Human Rights and Regime Change
    • B. Governments-in-Exile
  • The actors theory has ignored (233-264)   (243K)
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    • A. Intergovernmental Organizations
    • B. Transnational Corporations or MNCs
    • C. Non-Governmental Organizations
    • D. Terrorists and Terrorist Groups
    • E. Gangs
    • F. The Constellation of Members of the International Legal System in the Future : Interdependencies and Hybridizations
  • Human rights and individualism : regulating national control and providing international protection (265-302)   (261K)
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    • A. The Globalization of Diaspora and Its International Legal Implications
    • B. International Regulation of the Competence to Ascribe Nationality
    • C. The International Regulation of Withdrawal or Termination of Nationality
    • D. Nationality as the Basis for Protection in External Arenas
    • E. The Function of the Exhaustion Rule
    • F. The Calvo Clause and the Exhaustion Rule
    • G. The Prescription and Application of International Human Rights Protections
  • Contingencies for the use of force : myth system and operational code (303-322)   (169K)
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    • A. Proactive
    • B. Reactive : Self-Defence
  • The use and abuse of force : jus in bello (323-344)   (177K)
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    • A. The Modes of Force
    • B. The Reason for Compliance
    • C. The “MNPD” Principles
    • D. Absolute and Relative Prohibitions of the
    • E. The Decay of Absolute Prohibitions
  • The penumbra of professionalism : the citizenship role of the international lawyer (345-362)   (146K)
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    • A. Clarifying the Common Interest : General Principles of Content and Procedure
  • International law as a profession : dilemmas of identity and commitment (363-381)   (162K)
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    • A. The Shawcross Dilemma
    • B. The International Lawyer’s Dilemma
    • C. Bureaucracy and Responsibility
    • D. The Complexity of International Professional Responsibility
    • E. Some Inspiring Examples
    • F. Alternative Futures