International Law As Constructive Resistance Towards Peace and Justice.

• Superior document: International Law in Japanese Perspective Series ; v.16
• Author: Seta, Makoto.
• TeilnehmendeR: Negishi, Yota.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International Law in Japanese Perspective Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

This edition honors Professor Toshiki Mogami, known for his unique approach 'Jus Contra Anarchism et Oligarchism.' It distills the essence of his works, specifically 'International Law as Constructive Resistance for Peace and Justice,' which addresses interstate and institutional...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: International Law as Constructive Resistance towards Peace and Justice
• Part 1 (De-)Constructive Resistance for Alterity in International Law
• Chapter 1 The Phenomenological Embodiment of International Lawyers: the Gaze at People Living 'in This Corner of the Beautiful World'
• 1 Introduction
• 2 'Behind Academic Paradigms and Objective Concepts'
• 2.1 Positivist Reduction Disembodying International Lawyers in Idealities
• 2.2 Phenomenological Reduction Re-embodying International Lawyers in Realities
• 3 'The Gaze to the Beauty of the World'
• 3.1 Relative Aesthetics of International Lawyers with the Lifeworld
• 3.2 Lived Bodies of International Lawyers in Passivity
• 4 'Beyond &lt
• the Beauty for Myself&gt
• '
• 4.1 Universal Correlation of International Lawyers with Lifeworld
• 4.2 Intercorporeal Pairing of International Lawyers in Alterity
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 2 For Belated Justice in International Law: Righting Historical Wrongs in East Asia
• 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene
• 2 From Inter-temporal to Trans-temporal Perspectives
• 3 Ryukyu/Okinawa Now and Then
• 4 Colonial Wrongs Revisited
• Part 2 (Re-)Constructing Peace and Justice in International Law
• Chapter 3 Gender-Based Violence against Women in International Law: Transformative Possibility of International Law
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Feminist Approaches to International Law and the Violence against Women
• 2.1 Feminist Approaches to International Law
• 2.2 International Developments on Violence against Women: an Overview
• 3 International Law on Violence against Women from Feminist Perspectives
• 3.1 Violence against Women and Women's Human Rights
• 3.2 Violence against Women and International Injustice.
• 3.3 Claims for New Legally Binding Instruments
• 3.4 Criminal Law Approach
• 4 Transformative Approach to Gender-Based Violence against Women
• 4.1 Transformative Equality
• 4.2 Transformative Approaches to Gender-Based Violence against Women
• 4.3 Human-Centered Reading of International Law: Challenges by Feminist Judgments
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 4 The Right to Peace Revisited: beyond an Aspiring Norm
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Debate on the Right to Peace at the International Forum
• 2.1 1970s-1980s: Cold War Context
• 2.2 1990s: Post-Cold War Context
• 2.3 2000 Onward: the Right to Peace in a Global Context
• 3 'Right to Peace' in Regional Contexts
• 3.1 Right to Peace in Africa
• 3.1.1 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
• 3.1.2 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol)
• 3.1.3 Elaborating on the Right to Peace through the Communication between the African Commission and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACtHPR)
• 3.1.3.1 The African Commission
• 3.1.3.1.1 Democratic Republic of Congo/Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda 227/99
• 3.1.3.1.2 Association pour la sauvegarde de la paix au Burundi/Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire (drc), Zambia 157/96
• 3.1.3.1.3 Malawi Africa Association et al / Mauritania 54/91 et al
• 3.1.3.2 The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACtHPR)
• 3.2 The Right to Peace in Southeast Asia
• 4 Evolving the Right to Peace in Regional Contexts
• 5 Conclusion
• Part 3 Constructive Resistance in International Law from Below
• Chapter 5 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as Legal Correction of International Injustice: Issues of Normalization of 'Human Security' and Creation of World Law
• 1 Introduction
• 2 'Culture of War' and Nuclear.
• 2.1 Issues around Nuclear as 'Justice That Cannot Cross the Border'
• 2.2 Westphalia System and 'Culture of War and Violence'
• 3 Justice or Injustice around Nuclear Weapons
• 3.1 NPT Regime as Nuclear Hegemony System
• 3.2 Peace as Human Rights
• 4 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as Lawful Rectification of International Injustice
• 4.1 Background to the Formulation of the Treaty and Its Humanistic Approaches
• 4.2 Contents and Characteristics of the Treaty
• 5 National and Human Security around the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• 5.1 Confrontation of Opinions around the Treaty
• 5.2 Issues of Regulating 'Human Security' and Formulating the World Law
• 6 Concluding Remarks: 'Culture of Peace' and Dignity of Humans
• Chapter 6 Enemy or Disobedience? Paradigm Crisis on the Use of Lethal Force in Occupied Territory
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Elements of the Belligerent Occupation Regime
• 2.1 Uncertain and Tentative Nature
• 2.1.1 Uncertainty
• 2.1.2 Tentative Nature
• 2.2 Responsibility Entrusted to the Occupying Power
• 3 Legitimacy of Armed Resistance?
• 3.1 Partial Legitimisation of franc-tireurs?
• 3.2 Silence on the Legitimacy
• 4 Use of Lethal Force by Occupying Power in the Occupied Area
• 4.1 Two Paradigms for the Use of Force: Difference
• 4.2 Theories for Mutually Exclusive or Simultaneous Applications?
• 4.2.1 'Either or' Theory?
• 4.2.2 Conversion Theories?
• 4.2.2.1 Smooth Transition: Sliding Scale Theory?
• 4.2.2.2 Jump Theory?
• 5 Consequence of the Conversion: Classification of the Situation
• 6 Conclusion
• Part 4 Constructive Resistance through International Legal Institutions
• Chapter 7 International Organisations and Contestation: Reconsidering Democratic Control in Global Constitutionalism
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Global Constitutionalism and Democracy.
• 2.1 Contestatory Deficit in Global Constitutionalism
• 2.2 Two Conceptions of Contestation and Democratic Control
• 2.3 IO s' Role in Global Contestatory Democracy: Inter-organizational Contestation
• 3 Democratic Control via Inter-organizational Contestation
• 3.1 Example 1: the Making of the Dublin System
• 3.2 Example 2: Targeted Sanctions Saga Revisited
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 8 Legal Control for the UN Security Council: toward jus contra oligarchiam as Critical Global Constitutionalism
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Critical Global Constitutionalism and the Concept of Legal Control
• 2.1 The Constitutionalization of International Law and Global Constitutionalism
• 2.2 Jus contra oligarchiam as Critical Global Constitutionalism
• 2.3 The Concept of Legal Control
• 3 Toward Normative Integrity?
• 3.1 Practices i: Targeted Sanctions
• 3.2 Practices ii: International Criminal Justice
• 3.3 Practices iii: Responsibility to Protect
• 3.4 Towards Normative Integrity Based on International Human Rights Norms and the Principle of Subsidiarity
• 3.4.1 International Human Rights Norms
• 3.4.2 Potential of the Principle of Subsidiarity
• 4 Towards Legal Control Mechanism?
• 4.1 Judicial Control
• 4.2 Non Judicial Control
• 4.3 'The Right of Last Resort'
• 5 Conclusion
• Part 5 Constructive Resistance in International Law by Sovereign States?
• Chapter 9 The United Nations and the Big Powers at a Time of 'Patriotic Unilateralism' and 'Global Governance'
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Big Powers Politics and the International Order
• 2.1 The UN in History
• 2.2 The Question 'the UN and Big Powers Politics' Matters
• 3 About the Universality of the UN
• 3.1 Geographical Universality
• 3.2 Realization of Universal Value
• 4 'Patriotic Unilateralism' and Order
• 4.1 Structural Background of 'Patriotic Unilateralism'.
• 4.2 China as a New Big Power: Its Possible Impact on Multilateralism
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 10 The Role of Universal Jurisdiction in Achieving International Legal Justice: a Global Constitutionalism Perspective
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Jurisdiction Exercised by States and International Courts
• 2.1 Universal Jurisdiction and Its Theoretical Foundation
• 2.2 Bases of ICC's Jurisdiction
• 2.3 Regional Universal Jurisdiction?
• 3 Movements against Universal Jurisdiction in the Non-Europe
• 3.1 African Practices
• 3.2 Asian Practices
• 4 How Universal Jurisdiction Would Be Exercised
• 4.1 Conflicts between Global Justice and Regional Justice
• 4.2 Global Constitutionalism and Global Justice
• 5 Conclusion
• Index
• Back Cover.