United States hegemony and the foundations of international law / / edited by Michael Byers, Georg Nolte [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450029903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-107-13580-X; 1-280-43060-5; 0-511-17905-7; 1-139-14879-6; 0-511-06157-9; 0-511-05524-2; 0-511-49415-7; 0-511-32603-3; 0-511-07003-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 531 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 341/.09
• Soggetti: International law - History; International law - United States - History; Balance of power - History; United States Foreign relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the complexities of foundational change / Michael Byers -- ; pt. I. International community -- International community, international law and the United States: three in one, two against one or one and the same? / Edward Kwakwa -- Influence of the United States on the concept of the "international community" / Andreas Paulus -- Comments on chapters 1 and 2 / Martti Koskenniemi, Steven Ratner, and Volker Rittberger -- ; pt. II. Sovereign equality -- Sovereign equality: "the Wimbledon sails on" / Michel Cosnard -- More equal than the rest? Hierarchy, equality and US predominance in international law / Nico Krisch -- Comments on chapters 4 and 5 / Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Matthias Herdegen, and Gregory H. Fox -- ; pt. III. Use of force -- Use ; of force by the United States after the end of the Cold War, and its impact on international law / Marcelo G. Kohen -- Bending the law, breaking it, or developing it? The United States and the humanitarian use of force in the post-Cold War era / Brad Roth -- Comments on chapters 7 and 8 / Thomas Franck, Jochen Abr. Frowein, and Daniel Thürer -- ; pt. IV. Customary international law. 10 -- Powerful but unpersuasive? The role of the United States in the evolution of customary international law / Stephen Toope -- Hegemonic custom? / Achilles Skordas -- Comments on chapters 10 and 11 / Rainer Hofmann, Andrew Hurrell, and Rüdiger Wolfrum -- ; pt. V. Law of treaties: -- Effects of US predominance on the elaboration of treaty regimes and on the evolution of the law of treaties / Pierre Klein -- US reservations to human rights treaties: all for one and none for all? / Catherine Redgwell -- Comments on chapters 13 and 14 / Jost Delbrück, Alain Pellet, and Bruno Simma -- ; pt. VI. Compliance -- Impact on international law of US noncompliance / Shirley V. Scott -- Compliance: multilateral achievements and predominant powers / Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Comments on chapters 16 and 17 / Vaughan Lowe, David M. Malone, and Christian Tomuschat -- Conclusion / Georg Nolte.
• Sommario/riassunto: Successive hegemonic powers have shaped the foundations of international law. This book examines whether the predominance of the United States is leading to foundational change in the international legal system. A range of leading scholars in international law and international relations consider six foundational areas that could be undergoing change, including international community, sovereign equality, the law governing the use of force, and compliance. The authors demonstrate that the effects of US predominance on the foundations of international law are real, but also intensely complex. This complexity is due, in part, to a multitude of actors exercising influential roles. And it is also due to the continued vitality and remaining functionality of the international legal system itself. This system limits the influence of individual states, while stretching and bending in response to the changing geopolitics of our time.