Legal Order in a Violent World / / Richard A. Falk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Falk, Richard A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5529
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (632 p.)

Professor Myres S. McDougal of the Yale Law School calls this examination of the relation of law and violence in contemporary international society ".a profound, perceptive, and eloquent contribution to the most important problem of our time." Professor Falk places great emphasis on two distinctive challenges to world order--nuclear weapons and civil strife. While developing the implication that even the most powerful states are vulnerable to destruction trhough nuclear attack, he also points out that there is no very firm hope that military power cna be managed so as to reduce the predominance of the sovereign state in world politics. Richard A. Falk is Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University. Published for the Center of International Studies, Princeton University.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- PART ONE: A STATEMENT OF OUTLOOK -- Introduction -- I. The Future of World Order: A Comparison of Reformist and Revolutionary Perspectives -- II. The Regulation of International Conflict by Means of Law -- III. McDougal and Feliciano on Law and Minimum World Public Order -- PART TWO: CIVIL STRIFE, INTERVENTION, AND MINOR COERCION -- Introduction -- IV. The International Law of Internal War: Problems and Prospects -- V. United States Practice and the Doctrine of Nonintervention in the Internal Affairs of Sovereign States -- VI. United States Intervention in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and International Law -- VII. The Legal Status of the United States Involvement in the Viet Nam War -- VIII. The Legal Status of the United States Involvement in the Viet Nam War: A Continuing Inquiry -- IX. Operation Stanleyville: A Lesson in Third World Politics -- X. On Legislative Intervention by the United Nations in the Internal Affairs of Sovereign States -- XI. On Regulating International Propaganda: A Plea for Moderate Aims -- PART THREE: NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- Introduction -- XII. The Shimoda Case: A Legal Appraisal of the Atomic Attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- XIII. Minimizing the Use of Nuclear Weapons -- XIV. Thoughts in Support of a No-First-Use Proposal -- PART FOUR: A DISARMING WORLD -- Introduction -- XV. The Control of International Violence in a Disarming World -- APPENDICES -- A. The Legality of United States Participation in the Defense of Viet Nam: Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser -- B. Outline of Basic Provisions of a Treaty on General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World -- C. General Assembly Resolution 1653 (XVI): Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapons, November 24, 1961 -- Index -- Other books published for The Center of International Studies Princeton University