The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations

Name: The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Emmanuelle Jouannet

0 - Default Title

Description

Although portrayed as a liberal law of co-existence of and co-operation between states, international law has always been a welfarist law, too. Emerging in eighteenth-century Europe, it soon won favour globally. Not only did it minister to the interests of states and their concern for stability, but it was also an interventionist law designed to ensure the happiness and well-being of peoples. Hence international law initially served as a secularised eschatological model, replacing the role of religion in ensuring the proper ordering of mankind, which was held to be both one and divided. That initial vision still drives our post-Cold War globalised world. Contemporary international law is neither a strictly welfarist law nor a strictly liberal law, but is in fact a liberal-welfarist law. In the conjunction of these two purposes lies one of the keys to its meaning and a partial explanation for its continuing ambivalence.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 328
Release Date:: 2014-11-20
Publication Date:: 2014-07-10
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1107470943
ISBN13:: 9781107470941
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 477 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.8 cm

Buy on Amazon

Currently sold out