The quest for world order and human dignity in the twenty-first century : constitutive process and individual commitment / / W. Michael Reisman.

• Author: Hague Academy of International Law.; Reisman, Michael.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hague Academy of International Law.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: The Pocket Books of The Hague Academy of International Law / Les livres de poche de l'Académie de droit international de La Haye 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (503 p.)
• Notes: Based on lectures presented at the General Course at the Hague Academy of International Law, summer 2007.; "Full text of the lecture published in September 2012 in the Recueil des cours, vol. 351 (2010)"--P. [2].

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Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material : Breaking out of Alice's looking-glass : an introduction
• What is international law attached to?
• Some propositions and conditioning factors
• The world constitutive process and its decision functions
• The international lawmaking function
• Two modes of principled decision-making
• The international law-applying function
• Participation arrangements for States: the transformation of self-determination and the emergence of the individual
• Sovereignty and human rights : changing the internal arrangements of States by external means
• The actors theory has ignored
• Human rights and individualism : regulating national control and providing international protection
• Contingencies for the use of force : myth system and operational code
• The use and abuse of force : jus in bello
• The penumbra of professionalism : the citizenship role of the international lawyer
• International law as a profession : dilemmas of identity and commitment.