Fitzpatrick, Peter (2003) ‘Gods would be needed…’: American empire and the rule of (international) law. Leiden Journal of International Law 16 (3), pp. 429-466. ISSN 0922-1565.
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Abstract
In the perennial debate over whether the dependence of international law on power is complete or whether international law maintains some independence for itself, the latter position is increasingly and at best marginal. Here that direction of the debate is reversed. The very dependence of international law on power is integral to a relation of mutual dependence between them. It is in this relation that power constituently depends on an international law which, in its turn, contains a primal efficacy. That efficacy is illustrated in its countering the claims of American empire.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Copyright © 2003 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | international law, power, law, sovereignty, ethics, empire |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Plummer |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:47 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/486 |
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