Law Without Force : The Function of Politics in International Law.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Unreality of International Law and the Unlawfulness of International Reality -- The war and the problem of reconstruction -- The breakdown of world order outlined -- Passing sickness or organic disease? -- Where to look for the cause -- The difficulties of remedying the situation -- Law without force -- PART ONE: The Function of Law in International Politics -- Historical Introduction: A Genealogy of International law -- Political conditions surrounding the birth of international law -- Interstate law: Last bequest of Roman universalism -- Spiritual world unity and international law -- The European solidarity of the Estates -- Ius belli ac pacis -- I: Law in the Interdynastic Politics of Absolutism -- The three aspects of Absolutism in politics -- The consolidation of centralized power -- The interdynastic function of ius gentium -- The theory of international law and the "Third Estate" -- II: The role of international law during the period of liberalism and imperialism -- The growth of bourgeois world society -- Legal formalism in nineteenth century international relations -- Peace through law -- The function of legal theory in international relations -- III: The place of law in the world politics of today -- International law and social structure -- The end of laissez-faire -- The authority of the State in international trade -- The disruption of international society -- The politicization of social life -- The new slogan: Freedom of action for governments -- The trend of world politics -- The misfitting role of the traditional law of nations -- PART TWO: Legal Theory and Political Reality -- Sociological Introduction: The Connotations of Politics -- Politics and the State.

The elements of organization -- The unity of large organizations -- Organization is a unit not of men, but of behavior -- The specific function of political organization -- The specific structure of political organization -- The connotations of politics -- The extent of political organization in social life -- Definitions -- IV: Moral Idealism and Political Realism in International Law -- Factual and normative approaches in legal theory -- The origin of international law as a special discipline -- The features of personalistic law -- The dualism of subjective reality and objective ideality -- The antithesis between international law and international politics -- The historical substanceof the international " ideal" -- The element of natural law in the theory of positivism -- Forms of procedure preferred to norms of justice -- The seventeenth century inheritance in our international law -- V: The sociological Background of International Law -- The humanistic basis of the traditional law of nations -- Dualism between public and private interest as a root of international law -- The institutional framework of individualism -- The decline of individualism -- From nationalism to statism, from imperialism to autarky -- From Man Independent to Man Coordinate -- The organizational orientation of individuals -- VI: Making International Law Work -- The characteristics of the present system -- The untenable position of traditional international law -- Wanted: Order in international politics -- The end of international law? -- Functional approach as a way out -- Functional connectedness among states -- The way of reconstruction -- PART THREE: A Reconstruction of International Law -- Philosophical Introduction: The Significance of Function -- The crisis in legal theory: The ideal disconnected from the real -- The shortcomings of morality as a basis of law.

Overcoming the gulf between the "real" and the "ideal" -- The criterion of legal order: function not purpose -- Functional structure in social relationships -- Functional standards of legal order -- Do functional standards represent true values? -- "Consumptive" and "constructive" values -- Summary of the thesis -- Epilogue: The way of ascertaining immanent standards of value -- VII: The Notion of The State -- The idea of the "society of nations" -- The personification of the State -- New views of the nature of reality -- The formation of functional concepts -- The concept of the State in international law -- The notion of State territory in international law -- The dual aspect of the State's functions -- Sovereignty and "Reserved Domain" -- International Law as a way of fulfillment of political functions -- VIII: The Conception of the Legal Rule -- Ius est quod iussum est -- Right and might -- The legislative will in international law -- The assumption of power behind international law -- The binding force of legal rules -- The revision of the law -- The functional conception of legal rules -- The disappearance of the problems of revision and obligatory force -- Functional law is a facilitating, not a restrictive type of order -- The antithesis between legal order and disorder -- The role of legal statutes -- The function of politics in international law -- Funtcional reconstruction -- IX: Organization or Orientation -- What is to be done? -- The federalistic fallacy -- The World State -- The perpetual demand for international organization -- The revision of basic assumptions -- The forms of international order -- Not organization but orientation -- Index.

This study proposes a new basis for international law. The author rejects a moral basis for international law, advocating instead the substitution of a functional one. Philosophy, sociology and legal theory are all brought to bear on the question, what law best suits the modern world.

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