Consent and Commitment in the World Community : : The Classification and Analysis of International Instruments / / Douglas M. Johnston.

• Superior document: Procedural Aspects of International Law Series ; Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Johnston, Douglas M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Irvington-on-Hudson, New York : : Transnational Publishers, Inc.,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Procedural aspects of international law series ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Treaties and Treaty-like Instruments -- Introduction -- 1. The Resort to Interstate Commitment -- A. Ancestry of Agreement-Making -- B. Volume of Treaties and Other Negotiated Interstate Instruments -- C. Variety of Diplomatic Purposes -- 1. Functions of Diplomacy -- 2. Agreement-Making as a Function of Traditional Bilateral Diplomacy -- 3. Treaty-Making as a Function of Modem Associative Diplomacy -- 4. Negotiated Instruments as a Feature of State Administration -- 5. Negotiated Instruments as an Outcome of Personal and Summit Diplomacy -- 6. Official Commitments as a Strategy of World Order Development -- D. Patterns, Trends and Types -- E. Atypical Instruments -- 1. Atypical Parties -- 2. Atypical Purposes and Processes -- F. The Information Revolution and the Modern Dilemma -- 2. The Theoretical Premises: Needs, Taxonomies, and Functionalist Logic -- A. The Need for Treaty Classification -- B. The Case for Functional Re-Classification -- C. Taxonomies: Their Evolution and Roles -- D. Treaty Taxonomy: Rationale and Hypothesis -- E. The Functionalist Approach to International Law and Agreements -- F. Competing Frameworks -- 1. The Unitarian Framework -- 2. The Functionalist Framework -- G. Alternative Perspectives -- 1. The Traditional (Sub-Disciplinary) Perspective -- 2. The Neo-Traditional (Disciplinary) Perspective -- 3. The Post-Traditional (Cross-Disciplinary) Perspective -- H. The Quest for Realism and Equity -- 3. Framework for Analysis of Treaty Commitment and Behavior -- A. Competing Models of International Law -- 1. The Litigational Model -- 2. The Operational Model -- 3. The Societal Model -- B. The Impact of Functionalism -- 1. International Law as a "Field.

2. Varieties of Functionalism in the Social Sciences -- 3. The Scope of Functionalist Logic in International Law -- 4. Legal Development in Functionalist Perspective -- C. The Functionalist Classification of Bilateral Agreements -- D. Criteria for Re-Classification of All Negotiated Instruments -- 1. Formal Characteristics -- 2. Substantive Content -- 3. Behavioral Patterns -- 4. Functional Significance -- 4. Three Treaty Taxonomies -- A. The Litigational Taxonomy -- B. The Operational Taxonomy -- C. The Societal Taxonomy -- 5. Conclusions -- A. Treaty Theory for the New Millennium -- B. Some Operational Implications -- 1. The Test of Practical Utility -- 2. The Inception of Treaty and Treaty-Like Commitments -- 3. The Concept of Bindingness -- 4. Toward Sacred Text -- 5. The Interpretative Community -- 6. Changing Mores -- 7. Dysfunctionality and the Dead-Letter Syndrome -- 8. The Institutionalization of Commitment -- 9. Non-Compliance: The Elusiveness of Effective Sanctions -- 10. The Management of Treaty Disputes -- 11. The MOU Muddle -- C. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.