Foreign policy by Congress

Franck, Thomas M.

Oxford University Press

The American public has become increasingly disenchanted with the United Nations. Some responsible sources in this country are already advocating withdrawal from U.N. agencies and perhaps even from the entire system. This book, by the former Director of Research at UNITAR, the U.N.'s "think tank," examines the record of the U.N. during its first 40 years in the clear light of American national interest. Franck offers a balance sheet which confirms that the U.N. during its first 40 years in the clear light of American national interest. Franck offers a balance sheet which confirms that the U.N. often operates in a way that undermines respect for individual human rights and hampers conflict resolution. At the same time, he does not shrink from showing that the fault frequently lies with the United States itself. He shows how the U.S. helped form the U.N. with unrealistic views of what it could do, how for a decade or more the U.S. was able to use the U.N. essentially as a tool and adjunct to its foreign policy, and how Washington failed to predict and plan for the inevitable shift in power at the U.N. led by the newly emergent Third World nations. Franck warns of the American penchant for treating international relations as a series of unrelated encounters instead of an ongoing, institutionalized system in which the tactics and outcome of one crisis inevitably affect the way the next context is played out. Taday the U.S. and its allies are often the butt of antagonisms that the U.N. system seems to encourage and exaggerate. Nevertheless Franck shows that even now the U.S. position in the U.N. is far from hopeless, and he provides a blueprint for a strategy of "playing hard ball," which is far more realistic than abandoning the world organization.

Nation Against Nation: What Happened to the U.N. Dream and What the U.S. Can Do About It

Foreign & International Law

Although there is no international government, and no global police agency enforces the rules, nations obey international law. In this provocative study, Franck employs a broad range of historical, legal, sociological, anthropological, political, and philosophical modes of analysis to unravel the mystery of what makes states and people perceive rules as legitimate. Demonstrating that virtually all nations obey most rules nearly all of the time, Franck reveals that the more legitimate laws and institutions appear to be, the greater is their capacity for compliance. Distilling those factors which increase the perception of legitimacy, he shows how a community of rules can be fashioned from a system of sovereign states without creating a global leviathan.

The Power of Legitimacy among Nations

Fairness in International Law and Institutions

This new book by one of the most distinguished scholars of his generation offers a compelling view of modern international law. Based upon his Hague Academy lectures, the author establishes a framework through which the legal reasoning and theories which inform modern international law can be understood by students seeking an introduction to this large and complex area of law. He offers a critical analysis of the prescriptive norms and institutions of modern international law and argues that they have the capacity to advance, in practice, the abstract social values shared by the community of States and persons.

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

This new book by one of the most distinguished scholars of his generation offers a compelling view of modern international law. Based upon his Hague Academy lectures, the author establishes a framework through which the legal reasoning and theories which inform modern international law can be understood by students seeking an introduction to this large and complex area of law. He offers a critical analysis of the prescriptive norms and institutions of modern international law and argues that they have the capacity to advance, in practice, the abstract social values shared by the community of States and persons.

Business & Money

International

Clarendon Press

The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism

This book examines the gradual emancipation of the individual in national and international law and the changing social attitudes towards personal choice in constituting identity. It demonstrates that this desire of persons for choice is not limited to Western industrial society but a historical development powered by such independent variables as urbanization, the communications revolution, education, and economic development.

The Empowered Self: Law and Society in an Age of Individualism

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This book examines the gradual emancipation of the individual in national and international law. It also looks at the changing social attitudes towards personal choice in constituting identity.

The materials surrounding each simulation are designed to illuminate all sides of the matter at issue. In this way, students are challenged to do what lawyers actually do in a foreign-relations field, including the planning, preparation, and analysis of alternative strategic options, the conduct of negotiations, legislative drafting, and litigation.

Foreign Relations and National Security Law: Cases, Materials and Simulations (American Casebook Series)

Glennon, Michael J.

Reference

West Group

This third edition of Foreign Relations and National Security Law is a fully-updated version of a seminal casebook, containing classic cases from Foster v. Nielsen to Hamdan, penetrating commentary from The Federalist to Louis Fisher, essential excerpts of treaties, statutes, and executive orders, and citations for further study. By addressing the core doctrinal and theoretical issues spanning both the fields of foreign relations law and national security law, the casebook provides ample room for professors to design a course based on those topics most suited for their classroom experience. An annex contains challenging simulations crafted for role-playing or break-out sessions.

Foreign Relations and National Security Law: Cases, Materials, and Simulations (American Casebook)

Murphy, Sean D.

The United Nations Charter in 1945 prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorized by the Security Council. Although the Charter is very hard to amend, its drafters agreed that it should be interpreted flexibly by the UN's principal political institutions and the text has undergone extensive interpretation. This book relates these changes in law and practice to changing public values pertaining to the balance between maintaining peace and promoting justice.

Recourse to Force: State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures, Series Number 15)

Cambridge University Press

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Foreign policy by Congress

Nation Against Nation: What Happened to the U.N. Dream and What the U.S. Can Do About It

The Power of Legitimacy among Nations

Fairness in International Law and Institutions

Fairness in International Law and Institutions

The Empowered Self: Law and Society in an Age of Individualism

The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism

Foreign Relations and National Security Law: Cases, Materials and Simulations (American Casebook Series)

Foreign Relations and National Security Law: Cases, Materials, and Simulations (American Casebook)

Recourse to Force: State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures, Series Number 15)