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.